Re: timing

["Ian Overholt" <ioverholt@hotmail.com>]

Since you cannot hear the sound at idle, and the sound gets worse with 
acceleration, I would venture to say that your problem could be a motor 
mount.  Specifically the passenger side.  That mount has a tendency to 
sag, and when it does, the exhaust downpipe is moved very close to the 
swaybar.  When you acellerate and torque the motor, the exhaust touches 
the swaybar.  

You can check this fairly easily.
     1. Look at the passenger side motor mount, if the middle part is 
towards the top, the mount is bad.
     2. Check the clearance between the exhaust pipe and swaybar.  If 
it's really close, that's probably your noise source.

HTH,
Ian Overholt
'88 16v
'81 "S"


From: rhl@student.umass.edu

Quick question, i bout my scirocco last sunday, it worked great, i just 
ran through the first full tank of gas (87 octane) and all of a sudden i 
am getting this
horrible metalic sound that is accompanying my accelration, it is not 
terribly loud and is very audible inside the cabin, but all but 
unnoticable outide
the car.(wierd i know) also, when i opened up the hood with the engine 
running
and tried to reproduce the sound from there by using the throttle cable 
within
the car, it would every so often misfire. My only thought is that maybe 
the previous owner had advanced the timing too far, so i am going to try 
to put
high octane gas and see if that helps (i won't have access to a timing 
light 
till wed.) does this sound like the right answer to my problem?
the sound comes from directly in front of the driver, it is not present
when the engine is just coasting, and it's volume is variable with the 
amount of
accelration, not with just the revs.
Thanks in advance!
Rob Luhrs

--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to 
scirocco-L-request@scirocco.org,
with your request (subscribe, unsubscribe) in the BODY of the message.




______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to scirocco-L-request@scirocco.org,
with your request (subscribe, unsubscribe) in the BODY of the message.