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Originally Posted by litemup
Awww, man. I've been looking around for some of the "real" experts in between posts.
Stir it up before you take the pic. If there's water in there it would sink. Otherwise, doubtful we'd see anything.
I just went out and compared with mine. If you look again at your vid, notice how long it took for the oil pressure light to go out and how it corresponds to the disappearance of the knock.
Also, that knock is not general clatter. It sounds like only one rod.
Oil pressure is directly related to engine speed. You can use this principle to listen for a bad bearing.
Find yourself a long uphill climb. One where you can run in 5th slowly enough the engine lugs around 1500 RPM. Set yourself up so you can do this test and get it over with quickly. It's terrible even for a healthy engine. Low RPM is not bad by itself (engine idle - duh) but it's not cool to ask the engine for any real work down that low.
Shift up into 5th or 6th (whatever, you get the picture) and smoothly but quickly floor it. Listen for any knocks. You might even feel it in the gearshift. After no more than a second or two, pick the correct gear and get the revs back up.
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Hey, so this morning at first start up, it made the noise but very quietly and for a very short time (3 knocks maybe). Now I can't even replicate it consistently because sometimes when the car has been sitting for a while, the noise won't happen but if it's off for 15 seconds, it might happen. It's very random now.
Later, I did the test going uphill exactly as you said but I did not hear anything. Did it a second time, and still nothing.
I took some pictures of the oil and you can see them by going to this link:
http://imgur.com/a/YcKxJ
Thank you for all of your help!
