J_Rad

1. Go to my friends house and tell him I need to adjust my idol, he is confident you do this by adjusting your distributor, despite my hankering that it was otherwise. We mess with the distributor and idol goes down, but my car runs like diarrhea down a smooth slope.

2. I hear a ping in my engine, took it to shogun and they diagnosed it as a broken tensioner on my timing chain. Said the noise was the chain pinging against the deflector shield.

3. They said it was "not a problem" and I was on my way, driving from place to place as normal.

4. I pull into a parking lot and am cruising around in 2nd gear, my car shuts off and will no longer start. It cranks, sounds pretty normal when I try to start it but no worky.

What do you think Zilvia? Should I run naked into the nearest minefield?

dgomez

my cousins sr had the "ping" we left it on for 30 minutes to let the oil circulate and it went away. it ended up being the camshaft making the sound, we also thought it was the timing chain at first....my car did the same, drove it, heard a pop and now it cranks but wont start up. i took off the valve cover and the camshaft broke! easy fix. try those things dude