Ok this is on behalf of my mate, he was driving yesterday and coming off a slip road he heard a massive knocking noise and his STOP light came off and car cut out, he tried to start it but it was having none of it so we pushed it back to his and half an hour later it started but cut out again.
We managed to keep it going by giving it a few revs but the knocking noise was stupidly load on idle.
It's had a knocking noise before from the previous owners who had the whole bottom end rebuilt with all new parts apart from cams. The knocking is at the top btw sounds like it's under the inlets i.e. cams I would say?
Anyway he rang the company that did the rebuild who rang him back just now to say all parts were new, they still have the receipts etc only thing they didn't use new was cams.
So were going off the fact it must be cams, like I say the knocking is at the top of the block and defiantly not the bottom.
This is on a 53 plate 172, so was wondering how much a set of cams will set him back? Standards and also uprated ones and if he does upgrade will he need to change anything else or will it run fine?
Thanks
Simon
We managed to keep it going by giving it a few revs but the knocking noise was stupidly load on idle.
It's had a knocking noise before from the previous owners who had the whole bottom end rebuilt with all new parts apart from cams. The knocking is at the top btw sounds like it's under the inlets i.e. cams I would say?
Anyway he rang the company that did the rebuild who rang him back just now to say all parts were new, they still have the receipts etc only thing they didn't use new was cams.
So were going off the fact it must be cams, like I say the knocking is at the top of the block and defiantly not the bottom.
This is on a 53 plate 172, so was wondering how much a set of cams will set him back? Standards and also uprated ones and if he does upgrade will he need to change anything else or will it run fine?
Thanks
Simon