Hello all,

Drove yesterday, no issues. About half a day later I started it up and there was a new, and horrible, noise coming from the engine area. It's a grinding type noise, maybe a bit like rattling, never heard it before.

It was a bit cold out when I started it; had to scrape the windows... don't know if that would really matter.

I reved it a bit, grinding pretty much went away. Started driving it and felt some new vibration that hadn't been there. Got to the gas station, checked oil, was over a quart low . <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" />

Drove it to see what would happen, had about fifty miles to get home. Everything was pretty good at speed and I made it home without incident. I was thinking (hoping) it maybe got all better. But this morning the grinding noise and vibration was still there.

Never got up to speed today, but while driving the grinding is sorta still there while the vibration goes away when I take my foot off the gas. So it's mostly under load, but the grinding noise is comes and goes at idle.

Any thoughts? I've been researching and have some ideas, but appreciate your input. Please ask for any more details if it would help.

Thanks



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