7afe WTF Is wrong with my car?!, Grinding noise Options

[Red94Celica]

Okay, so today I left to head over to my brothers house and my car just started making some loud ass noises. I dont know what causing it. It appears there is a small amount of fresh oil coming out of the motor. It sounds like it is coming from the left side of the motor, where the alternator and belts are. There is a pretty significant power loss (not that the motor is powerfull anyway lol) but especially when you get into the higher RPM range, (4500+) it basically just stops producing any power from there on out. It made the same noise the other night, so I pulled over and popped the hood and then it just stopped making the noise. So I figured that there was a chunk of snow/ice inside getting knocked around since we just had a pretty bad snow/ice storm. All help is appreciated!

Here is the oil coming out.


I took a short video of the noise, I'll have the link to that within the hour.

[56willysnut]

Great pics! It's the tensioner bearing for the timing belt! In the one pic you can see the belt is loose (not pulled tight) this will allow it to jump time causing power loss problems. See if you can get it to rotate at all with your finger when tension is off the timing belt.
Also a good time to replace the camshaft seal (behind the camshaft gear) or see if the leak is coming from there. and the valve cover gasket, oil leak looks minor from the pics. Post what you find!

This post has been edited by 56willysnut: Feb 19, 2007 - 10:20 AM