1971Viva
01-09-09, 06:10 PM
Hi, there seems to be a few people suffering from the above problem so I thought I would start a thread on it.
In my case the noise only occured if the car had stood for at least 2 days. The noise occurred about 1 second after starting and sounded like a crunching of cogs but was very difficult to reproduce. Once it occured you had to wait another 2 days for it to happen again but it would never do it at the dealers ! I eventually recorded it on a dictaphone and replayed it to the dealer when a switched on techy recognised the fault and something to do with oil feeds and camshafts. He found a bulletin on it and modified the engine management system and the fault is gone !
Yippee, half a day in the workshop and all is well.
Bye the way I thing the forum is great.
Cheers
In my case the noise only occured if the car had stood for at least 2 days. The noise occurred about 1 second after starting and sounded like a crunching of cogs but was very difficult to reproduce. Once it occured you had to wait another 2 days for it to happen again but it would never do it at the dealers ! I eventually recorded it on a dictaphone and replayed it to the dealer when a switched on techy recognised the fault and something to do with oil feeds and camshafts. He found a bulletin on it and modified the engine management system and the fault is gone !
Yippee, half a day in the workshop and all is well.
Bye the way I thing the forum is great.
Cheers