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Well... the suggestions of bad CV's could be the answer but you sure will feel the up and down play in them if there that bad. Usually with worn mains youll get a rattle or knocking of some sort on startup.. and a flickering oil light when hot at idle but things may not be all that bad yet... or you just have 1 bad bearing. The problem with rebuilding an engine which has seen a "traumatic event" is that the case is never the same. If the engine was run out of oil from leaking seals and got real hot the case will be permanently damaged... as it can be if some of the tin is gone. this may not show up for a while especially if you dont have an oil pressure gauge. The usual complaint of pulling studs is result of a traumatized case. Hope its only CV's Keith > On Wed, 23 May 2001, "Keith Park" wrote: > > > > > Bearing noise under load is the mains, do you get knocking when you first > > start it in the few seconds before the oil pressure comes up?? > > I have no odd noises at all upon start-up. Only under load going up a particularly steep section of hill I travel regularly. Not all the time or under other load conditions. No green oil light flickers either, BTW. If the main bearings were loose, I think I'd hear the *tok* under more conditions and maybe see the green light, no? > > > are you sure your case nuts are tight? by now you will have pounded things > > out anyway... > > There's no way to check this with the engine installed is there?? I had no involvement in the engine rebuild, so I know I assumed some risk when I bought the car. But the rebuilder did provide detailed notes of why the old engine died what corrective mods he made. He noted that the old oil cooler seals were wrong (leaking and oil starvation), a lot of the tin was wrong or missing, and he put the FI back together right (well, mostly). Seemed like he paid good attention to detail, which gave me confidence to buy the car with its recent rebuild. Time will tell, I guess. > > -Mark Fuhriman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe >