Ok I have had this thing apart a few times and am starting to get a little frustrated. It seems like I drain the oil, take what I need to apart, put it back together, and try it out. BUT there always seems to be something else goin on.

This time there is a noise coming from the clutch side of the engine. It is pretty fast in rhythm, and I cant tell if it gets faster with more throttle, because it is over powered by the engine noise itself. If I could describe it, it sounds like a bolt is lose and something is hitting it. Just about a fast tunk tunk tunk tunk. Almost like an pinhole exhaust leak. To pin point it, it seems to be coming from the oil pump area/front of the engine.

When I let out the clutch, and the engine gets some torque on it instead of idling, the noise seems to go away.

I had 4 ideas: 1. Could it be a bad oil pump? 2. Is it something with the clutch? 3. Could it be a crank bearing? 4. A lose bolt in the oil pump or clutch.

Either way I should probably drain the oil, take off the clutch cover, and hope to not screw up the gasket.

Has anybody ever came across this before?

 

doesnt sound like it could be the timing chain could it?

 

Thats what I was thinkin at first, but it seems to be on the opposite side of the engine. Im gonna look into it more when I get outta work today.

 

I found out what the problem was. The nut on the primary gear was lose and rattling around. I loc-tited it up good. The problem though I forgot to put the thrust washer on. I'll try to get the nut off and set everything up again tomorrow. I was about to break something when I couldn't get it off again.