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    Default Strange engine noise?

    Just went and picked someone up and noticed from outside my car with the engine on the car sounded a bit off, took a video and I can definetly hear a strange metal on metal noise, @ExtraSlow swears he cant hear anything. Ive posted the video to youtube to see if anyone else can hear it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAdKNza5nCY

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    Sounds like a bad bearing on a pulley - had one do this on my Civic last year.

    I used a contact stethoscope to ID which pulley I had that went bad.
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    I posted a similar thread on reddit and some guy there said it sounds like the water pump - and also agreed with you that its a bad bearing probably on the Serp belt. So if that is the case is that an expensive fix or pretty cheap.

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    ExtraSlow is not a reliable audio diagnostician. Although the audio sounds clearer on that YouTube vid than the one you texted me. I think it must have compressed itself to text.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nzwasp View Post
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    I posted a similar thread on reddit and some guy there said it sounds like the water pump - and also agreed with you that its a bad bearing probably on the Serp belt. So if that is the case is that an expensive fix or pretty cheap.
    Start by isolating the location better. You can stick a contact stethoscope (with care) onto various parts of the engine to get a sense of where this noise is coming from.

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    I dont even know what a contact stethoscope is or where to find one. I just watched a video of some guy using a screw driver and he was touching the top of the water pump and the alternator and putting his ear to the end of the screw driver to pin point the noise.

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    a large handled screwdriver will work fine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nzwasp View Post
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    I dont even know what a contact stethoscope is or where to find one. I just watched a video of some guy using a screw driver and he was touching the top of the water pump and the alternator and putting his ear to the end of the screw driver to pin point the noise.
    Thats just fine too. I use one from Princess Auto.

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    Yah there is definitely some noise going on for sure!

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    It is your waterpump. The v6 Toyota water pumps are fairly common. Sometimes if you watch the pulley it wobbles. When you remove the belt you can feel it too.

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    Whats the cost estimate for that?

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    Pm’d

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    Sounds like the MIL has been joy riding again haha

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    The noise could also be your alternator!

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qy_Aldhp6U

    Very likely a waterpump related sound.

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    It was the water pump and also I have a sway bar link that’s shot too so getting both fixed

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