How to tell if you have Big End problems

[andyf]

If you car sounds like this,

then you have knackered big ends.

[Gary@APT]

that sounds like a very bad case!!!

[marty_t3]

Sounds just like mine did last new year

[xR33]

Naahhhh. They'll be fine.....

[shane]

not a sound i want to hear for a while (hopefully)

[MeLLoN Stu]

mine was waaaaay worse than that

[antony]

i see you posted it in s13 tech

[Pete C]

i see you posted it in s13 tech

That's 'cos the recording is of Andy's old S13.

What made you post this up again Andy, wasn't it done a couple of years back?

[John Bennett]

If your car ever gets to sounding like that, I'd step away from the engine and turn it off, fast
Was that engine scrap then?
This is an earlier stage.

[glen200sx]

pah thats nothin if sm or tenman read this ask how bad mine were :O

[gsk2000uk]

was you at the side of my car earlier today on the a1 when you recorded that

[Sibbers]

mine was waaaaay worse than that

mine too but that noise still fills me with horror and sends shivers right through me

[Richie_Badger]

That sounds HORRIBLE!!
But thanks for posting it, I know what kind of noise to be aware of now
But fingers crossed I never hear that noise again.

[Muffet]

hi, con somebody post an image of what exactly are the big ends because i speak just a little of english and i cant find an image of them!!!
thanks
and if somebody can post ones in bad condition and ones in good...

thanks a lot

[Baba]

hi, con somebody post an image of what exactly are the big ends because i speak just a little of english and i cant find an image of them!!!
thanks
and if somebody can post ones in bad condition and ones in good...

thanks a lot

Hi there,
In simple words the big ends are like the sleeve that acts as a bearing on your piston. When you take your oil pan off you will see the bottom of your pistons. If you take the nuts off the bottom of them the bottom half should come off. Inside that bottom half (and top half) there are these kinda shells. They are the Big Ends.

[shadow21]

hi, con somebody post an image of what exactly are the big ends because i speak just a little of english and i cant find an image of them!!!
thanks
and if somebody can post ones in bad condition and ones in good...

thanks a lot

What language do you usually speak ?
if French: coussinets d'embiellage
ce sont les coussinets (amortisseurs) qui se trouvent entre la bielle et le vilbrequin.

if not French...

[SMiFFAD]

If i haddnt taken it apart, my MR2 could have beaten that

Nasty nasty noise

[shadow21]

hi, con somebody post an image of what exactly are the big ends because i speak just a little of english and i cant find an image of them!!!
thanks
and if somebody can post ones in bad condition and ones in good...

thanks a lot

check here

[Carl]

Mine sounds like that now
well not as bad but its going to steve@ems for a rebuild next week. cheers steve

[Muffet]

i speak spanish... thanks a lot for the link, the best explanation that someone can have... You should have talk about changing big ends bearings and not big ends because that was the confusion that i had!!

thanks a lot, im still looking for a decent 200sx s13 here in Chile to buy one, whish me luck...