Post by billyvanboheman on Jan 5, 2009 11:54:25 GMT 11
I thought some one else may have struck a similar problem to me in the past, so I will try to explain it as best as I can, as it was over very quickly, and hasn't done it again since.
I was traveling over the Xmas/New Year holidays, not towing, but had a reasonable amount of gear in the back, along with my wife and 3 kids on board.
My 1993 3.1 Bighorn ran like a charm for the first 1000 k's but on the return trip, on a flat winding piece of road in the middle of no where, it decided to have a blip.
The noise sounded like a plastic fan blade hitting some thing solid, or a pinking noise for the old school on here, which lasted for about 2 seconds max.
I looked behind me after it stopped to see if I had possibly run over something, as the noise came and went so quick, it was hard to know initially what it was, and found a noticeable cloud of blue smoke hanging over the spot where this had happened.
There was no drop/surge in performance, it just went blip and carried on?
My thought was a gulp of oil must have bypassed some where? but with it being a first time, and not since, it's a little hard to identify further than that.
The truck has a warranty on it, but as you would expect it's due to run out in about a month or so, so sods law would dictate that it will cack itself just after that, if it's going to!
Anyone had a similar issue, that can possibly point me closer to the cause, so I can get it sorted before the warranty runs out?
It's on about 125000 K's with out any know rebuild, had cam belt and tensioners done at 100000.
I was traveling over the Xmas/New Year holidays, not towing, but had a reasonable amount of gear in the back, along with my wife and 3 kids on board.
My 1993 3.1 Bighorn ran like a charm for the first 1000 k's but on the return trip, on a flat winding piece of road in the middle of no where, it decided to have a blip.
The noise sounded like a plastic fan blade hitting some thing solid, or a pinking noise for the old school on here, which lasted for about 2 seconds max.
I looked behind me after it stopped to see if I had possibly run over something, as the noise came and went so quick, it was hard to know initially what it was, and found a noticeable cloud of blue smoke hanging over the spot where this had happened.
There was no drop/surge in performance, it just went blip and carried on?
My thought was a gulp of oil must have bypassed some where? but with it being a first time, and not since, it's a little hard to identify further than that.
The truck has a warranty on it, but as you would expect it's due to run out in about a month or so, so sods law would dictate that it will cack itself just after that, if it's going to!
Anyone had a similar issue, that can possibly point me closer to the cause, so I can get it sorted before the warranty runs out?
It's on about 125000 K's with out any know rebuild, had cam belt and tensioners done at 100000.
