Loose metal sound
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Loose metal sound
Hey guys I got a 91 Cherokee laredo I've been working on for a while and just recently it started making a noise that sounds like something is loose and rattling around and it sounds like its coming from my oil pan. I had a mechanic drill a new oil drain plug and didnt remove the pan. Is it metal shards or what?
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Hey guys I got a 91 Cherokee laredo I've been working on for a while and just recently it started making a noise that sounds like something is loose and rattling around and it sounds like its coming from my oil pan. I had a mechanic drill a new oil drain plug and didnt remove the pan. Is it metal shards or what?
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Check the torque converter bolts and look at the flexplate, the bolts tend to loosen and flexplates crack around the crank bolt holes.
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Originally Posted by ColoradoCorey
well if it truley is coming from your oil pan you could have a bad bearing causeing the crank to flop. Make 100% sure this is the cause of the noise before you go ripping into it.
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Well it sounds like my heat shield in my exhaust. Little more investigation is needed tho. And while investigating I found a missing bushing a kinked line tranny to radiator and my suspension is bad...worse than I had thought
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So I got all new suspension new bushing and a new tranny line for $400 and new exhaust with a thresh muffler for $150. So off to work now
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