Originally posted by preylude99
hey fozzy.... did you hear it more so from the tensioner when the car wasnt fully warmed up? and if you listened in the engine bay while you revved could you hear like a loud tap or pop where the tensioner is only on deceleration? cause thats happening on mine and i think its the tensioner, shouldnt be valve tapping cause it only does it on deceleration and if I put my ear close enough i can hear it right by where the tensioner is.
Yes, what you describe is very similiar to what I experienced. The loudest I would hear it would be when the engine was cold and the fast idle was on. However, it would come and go. Sometimes when I turned it on I could hear, sometimes not. Someone on this board mentioned a low growl sound and that described it perfectly when I was in the car decelerating.
Before I heard about this issue I thought part of the exhaust near the exhaust manifold might be loose because that's what it sounded like to my ear. Even when I took it in that's what I described the problem as. Only when they mentioned the noise was coming from under the valve cover did I mention the TSB on this issue.