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Old March 11th 05, 08:41 PM
Lawrence Glickman
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:28:19 GMT, "Steve" > wrote:

>I have a 1995 camry 3 liter v6 that drives smooth and idles smooth. I have
>noticed that when I put my tranmission into gear that it makes this really
>faint but audible knocking like a clunk clunk clunk clunk during idle at a
>traffic light. This knocking noise isn't apparent when driving and when the
>car is placed in neutral or park there is no knocking. When I rev the
>engine up in park/neutral it also does NOT make any knocking noises.
>
>I am concerned that maybe there is something wrong with the rod bearings. I
>did drive the car really hard for about 5-10 minutes up to over 200 km/h on
>the highway on a few odd occasions but I highly doubt something like that
>could muck up the bearings. It has 140, 000km's and I am the original owner
>that has diligently changed all the fluids in the car as per the service
>manual recommendations.
>
>I have no drag raced my car or ever did a hard off the line acceleration in
>1st gear.
>
>What does rod knock sound like? Thanks


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