PM-Performance
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- 2004 Mercury Mountaineer
Hello All,
I was hoping yall with more experience can help me track down my issue.
Starting last week the car started making a whining noise after I decided to check the oil since its change interval is coming up. It sounds similar to a supercharger whine.
I made a 30 mile ride with no noise. I let it sit in the mall parking lot for a little and checked the oil while I thought of it and saw it was a little low and a little milky on the cap.
No coolant loss that I have found otherwise. Just milkiness a little on the inside of the cap. Since I cleaned that out, it has not come back
Well on the drive home it started whining, so I made it a point to stop and grab a qt of oil quick and throw some in to top of off until the next change.
Drove it a few times this week and the noise is driving me crazy. I thought originally it might be an idler pulley, but the sound is coming from the pass side it sounds like. I took a stethoscope to it and seems its coming from the pass valve cover area.
Any ideas what all I am looking at here? Or to even confirm its coming from there and not radiating from anywhere else?
It sounds exactly like this which led back to being an idler pulley which I originally thought. When I scoped it though, could it be it is resonating into the head area?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSIdxQ7_sQo
I was hoping yall with more experience can help me track down my issue.
Starting last week the car started making a whining noise after I decided to check the oil since its change interval is coming up. It sounds similar to a supercharger whine.
I made a 30 mile ride with no noise. I let it sit in the mall parking lot for a little and checked the oil while I thought of it and saw it was a little low and a little milky on the cap.
No coolant loss that I have found otherwise. Just milkiness a little on the inside of the cap. Since I cleaned that out, it has not come back
Well on the drive home it started whining, so I made it a point to stop and grab a qt of oil quick and throw some in to top of off until the next change.
Drove it a few times this week and the noise is driving me crazy. I thought originally it might be an idler pulley, but the sound is coming from the pass side it sounds like. I took a stethoscope to it and seems its coming from the pass valve cover area.
Any ideas what all I am looking at here? Or to even confirm its coming from there and not radiating from anywhere else?
It sounds exactly like this which led back to being an idler pulley which I originally thought. When I scoped it though, could it be it is resonating into the head area?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSIdxQ7_sQo
