As silly as that sounds, last year when we got to Oktoberfest, Barry was sounding a little rattly and worse for wear. Turns out he had lost a screw securing a piece of the lower tinware.
Are you sure your CV boots don't need a good geeeseing up. We called out RAC many years back for a knocking and it was that.
Good call but the knocking was definitely the engine. As I got it off the road and into a handy lay by I took it out of gear and came off the gas. The knocking slowed down in relation to the engine speed rather than the road speed.
I replaced the trim around the Wesfalia front roof rack and at speeds over 50 there was an almighty rattly banging noise. It seems that I may have fitted the trim to tight bending the rack a tad. Ruddy awful noise. I've heard since that's its affected others too who have fitted the trim. An no it wasn't from JK
I have a pine cone that rolls around in my roof rack. Scares the Marmite out of me when I forget what it is. I leave it in there for fun.
What you see in Birdy's picture is what we think you'll find. While it was running, the piston must have been battering back into place. Was there smoke from the exhaust? I guess not as you'd have mentioned it, so no hole in the piston.
What was strange about my loose ring was that from cold the bus would start no problem. Once warmed thought he wouldn't idle and he wouldn't start as easily. It was a bit of a struggle. However there really wasn't that much noise but a lack of power but even that didn't stop him going "reasonably" well. In fact he just sounded a little lumpy even though he was running with 0psi on cylinder 1. Reset the tappet and all was ok for 70 miles. And then back to square one. Do a compression check.
Does it sound like this? 'cos that's exactly what number 3 big end on my old Fiesta sounded like as I approached work in Deeside after coming off the M56 at 7 in the morning......it was the slowest journey home EVVAAAH!
