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GT-S Celica
11-25-2001, 11:52 PM
today after a 20 mile drive, i got out of my car and poped the hood just because i felt like looking at the engine... don't ask me why but i did. anyway, my engine sounded like a lawn mower. nothing too loud, just annoying. i dont have any mods done to the car so i dont kno wat could be wrong. i'm gonna go to the dealer tomorrow. Also, i have trouble starting the car after the car gets warmed up. wen the car is cold, it starts fine but once the engine warms up, it has trouble starting...
GT-S Celica
11-26-2001, 02:00 AM
ttt
Maelfyn
11-26-2001, 04:27 AM
Judging from your description I have no idea. Though if it sounds like a lawnmower maybe your spark plugs are misfiring... that's just a crappy guess though.
SlasherX
11-26-2001, 08:46 AM
what do you mean sounds like a lawnmoyer? if you are having stumbling, popping type sounds, check your plugs and go to toyota to have a diagnostic run on your engine. if your car overall has a high pitched sound when youre driving around, etc. get used to it, its a small displacement higher revving 4 banger..thats how they sound.

i bet its the former personally, i doubt your engine is running right. maybe you bent a valve?
t2000gts
11-26-2001, 08:58 AM
maybe it's your fuel injectors...mine makes little ticking/puttering noises too, but the engine runs fine. the spark plugs are relatively new (i just replaced them after the old ones rusted from water in the engine).

i'd think it'd be valves, but i have an auto GTS (so no overrevving, rev limiter @ 7900rpm), and i don't think a little water in the engine or having oil drain out of the engine (dealer @#$%ed up oil change, but i didn't run it long without oil in there) would cause bent valves...and my car runs fine, pulls hard on cold nights like normal...
SlasherX
11-26-2001, 09:06 AM
you need to make yourself more specific...a lawnmoyer has many sounds to it. if you could be more detailed, like..you hear a rattling, or it stumbles, or something, we could help you identify the problem more closely..a lawnmoyer is one of the noisest engines out there, so its not easy to pinpoint.