The daughters suby developed a rumble down low in the front of the motor, (or thats where it appeared to be), My thoughts were a bearing somewhere was the culprit, so i dropped all the belts off and started it up and the noise was still the same, so i elliminated all the outside stuff and started thinking timing belt area. I then thought take it to a workshop and get a opinion, So off we went and what a load of croc we got from different mechanics,
No1,,,, Definitley big ends motor has got to come out!
No2..... could be the tensioner or idler pulley bearings on the aircon or power steer pump, I Then proceeded to tell him what i had done and noise was still prevalent, He then lost all interest and said "No Idea" bring it back in a couple of weeks and we'll have to strip it down!
No3 Shakes head and can only talk Dollars and rubbish Jap chit.
No4 After taking a bit of time to listen to what we had to say, then having a good listen to the motor at different revs more or less said its got to be one of the timing belt pulley bearings, So we left it with him ,got a call 2hrs later ,
" Found it" collapsed bearing on timimg belt idler, will put a kit in, pick it up on monday" ,
Polite, efficent, No fuss, reasonable rate, Thats all we wanted!
Cheers Axle