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Well this is not how I expected today to go.... Spent most of it in the office getting sponsorships lined up to help get this thing into the 10's! 

Around 7PM I drove it 10 minutes to Home Depot to get some supplies to build an archery target. I noticed the noise a few minutes into the drive. At first I thought it was something with the power steering pump (its been making other noises recently). But by the time I got home the sound was much worst. Oil pressure was totally fine. Engine felt totally fine. But that noise is totally not fine.

I took off the valve covers and inspected the valve train: everything looked good there. Is there anything else that could cause this noise besides rodknock? :(

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Volvo Has Rodknock... Possibly?

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Kurtis Bronz

well… now you know it’s time to build the internals

Sniff

Maybe a broken push rod or something like that? 😬

George

Lifters could be shot, take off the intake and inspect the pushrods and lifters. If not that then you may be out of luck.

Xander Beasley

I'm no technical expert, but do an oil change and see if you've got metal in there. Anything catastrophic would definitely show in the oil, so it could rule out a few major issues

George

Maybe even take the entire valve train apart cause I know some LS engines rockers can give up life

Skid_valve

Full Send 7 seconds ago Damm sounds like rod knock to me, regardless your gonna have to pull the motor and drop the oil pan to find out. You could just to get an idea without pulling the pan drain the oil and see if it has metal in it.

Andrew Becker

Will shit guess I know where all my hard earned patreon dollars are going next lol. Forged pistons!

Gingium

Update: I had a few people tell me that its probably a lifter. I'm going to pull the heads tomorrow to check it out!

Greg Rhyne

Definitely sounds like a lifter. Pull it to confirm.

Red Squirrel

Does it go away if you turn the up radio louder? :P Seriously though hope it's not too bad.

George

Forgot the lifters aren't in the valley on the LS

Matt Cayton

Could be a bent pushrod as well factory they aren’t the strongest with boost

Daxton Koester

Doesn’t sound like rod knock honestly. The speed is right but the tone isn’t, it’s almost too hollow of a sound. Rodknock is way “punchier”

Diederik Joziasse

Maybe something flying inside or a random smaal thing hitting spinning stuff on the outside

Nicholas Paone

broke a lifter, doesn’t even sound like piston slap.