7afe WTF Is wrong with my car?!, Grinding noise Options

[Red94Celica]

Okay, so today I left to head over to my brothers house and my car just started making some loud ass noises. I dont know what causing it. It appears there is a small amount of fresh oil coming out of the motor. It sounds like it is coming from the left side of the motor, where the alternator and belts are. There is a pretty significant power loss (not that the motor is powerfull anyway lol) but especially when you get into the higher RPM range, (4500+) it basically just stops producing any power from there on out. It made the same noise the other night, so I pulled over and popped the hood and then it just stopped making the noise. So I figured that there was a chunk of snow/ice inside getting knocked around since we just had a pretty bad snow/ice storm. All help is appreciated!

Here is the oil coming out.


I took a short video of the noise, I'll have the link to that within the hour.

[Red94Celica]

Well I have an update. My father came home (pretty mechanically inclined) and wanted to see how it drove so we took it out, was doing the same thing and then all the sudden everything just stopped. It shut off and now when you try and start it, all it does is the starter spins. (Brand new starter in it, so that has nothing to do with it) My dads buddy that is hear said he had a truck do something very similar and the mechanic told him that it jumped that much that it wouldnt even do anything which could be my case. I dont know..any thoughts?

At about 4800 RPMS and up it was just a completley big dead spot on the powerband. Accelerating to them was slower then the usual slowness . It kind of jumped a little whenever you would let off the gas, making a smooth shift practically impossible too.


Update: Ok, so I think we have it narrowed down to the timing belt tensior. Which has bearings in it (correct?) and the bearings went bad in there, which was giving off the clunking/grinding noise. Now it locked up isnt putting and tension on the belt is loose. There are tiny little silver shavings in there too...I dont know if you can see them in the pictures or not. So I *think* that is my problem. The motor isnt locked up, we made sure of that. So does my theory sound correct?

Pictures



This post has been edited by Red94Celica: Feb 18, 2007 - 10:19 PM