OK, anybody ever heard their engine at idle sound like it had crickets - like on a summer evening - but it is idling... Odd. I know that the timing is set right... that would have been my first guess. Nothing rubbing that I can find.
crickets in a can
Feb 24, 2004
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It is called FWEEM. Cover one exhaust pipe at a time and see if the sound changes.
If it is not your tail pipes on a stock muffler, then it is your breaker point rubbing block. A light coating of moly disulfide grease on the breaker cam. Lubricate forthwith. ( that means NOW!) Colin
It could also be the bottom pulley rubbing the engine tin.
Freddy
jjs wrote:
Definitely not fweem. When it quits raining I will check. It seemed to come and go. I wanted to be sure it wasn't the vacuum advance sticking a little and keeping too much advance at idle. I will put some lube on the distributor cam too. Thanks for the quick responses... until I can get a dry spell in the weather to put the disk brakes back together on my daughter's '93 Accord I don't have a backup!
Kirk, it's probably the bearings on your new alternator.
( just kidding )
I now have one of those factory Alternator stands if you are intersted. 10 bucks. ( it needs to be cleaned up severely and maybe remove the filler part and refinish it also.)
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.............It wouldn't hurt to run it for a short time without the belt to rule out the alternator & fan.
Remove the filler part - something that drove me nuts. Literally. I finally bought the spanner to remove the nut inside.
I think that's the natural "fweem" you're hearing...or the distributor cam needs grease.
Wouldn't it be funny if it really WAS crickets? :)
Are you in the Florida panhandle? We've had a couple of days of rain lately here and I feel your pain. Hoping it quits so I can finish my Baja Buggy.
Once I had an extra noise in my engine that was just like crickets on acid. It turned out to be the tin rubbing against the mainfold. Could you pinpoint the precise origin of the noise?
Ant
KWW wrote:
North TX. It is a bummer too....cause my sister in NM said this has been SNOW for them... wow I wish it would snow here!
...................This is what I like about you John, thinking outside of the box..............
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