Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 22:42:38 -0400 From: "James Rosenkranz" <fireglownospamsouth.net> Subject: Re: Saab 900 Classic Timing chain issue
"Dave Hinz" <DaveHinznospamcop.net> wrote in message news:4ema1qF1epqtnU1nospamvidual.net... > On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:00:33 +0100, Charles C. > <c.k.christacopoulos.removeme> wrote: > > > Right. Sounds like if you put a handful of nuts & bolts into a metal > bucket and swished them around rapidly. Well, maybe not, but kinda > close. You know it once you've heard it, kind of noise. I like the > heat shield suggestion too, that's kind of in the neighborhood and might > be it. Does it happen at just one specific RPM? > I'm pretty sure this is chain related, as the new tensioner has changed the nature of the noise. Now clatter and rattle rather than pinging. Constant rattle regardless of RPMs.
