Engine: 70 R: Cam noise Very heavy Tic,Tic,Tic, noise

[vol]

Good afternoon chaps

I want to thank you all for your help and suggestions
So I spoke to the engineer this morning and he told me that when
he removed the sump he wasn’t able to see any problem under there so he took off the head and found number one cylinder has a “bent con rod” he is going to pressure test the head as he thinks I may have had a small coolant leak or oil issue, I will know more over the next week as it’s a bank holiday weekend here the bill has dropped to €2000 reason for the Heavy ticking noise was the big end was striking the very bottom of the bore and the small end was also striking the crank counterweight..


Cheers Vol.

[huron]

Pics when the bits are out please.

[Baffler]

Originally Posted by martin_r_smith

Knock knock, who's there? Your bent con rod.

Martin was on the money! Sorry to hear that, Vol, hopefully you can get her sorted. Are you planning to upgrade or stick with stock internals?

[martin_r_smith]

Originally Posted by Baffler

Martin was on the money! Sorry to hear that, Vol, hopefully you can get her sorted. Are you planning to upgrade or stick with stock internals?

Not a victory I'm happy about but it is all too common on these. Low revs and booting is not a good idea, be gentle under 3k rpm.