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Originally Posted by ScoobySi
Well, I had it confirmed about 30mins ago, the first "mod" will be an engine rebuild as the big end bearings are shot ...
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Just a thought before you jump in feet first.
Make sure it's not the cambelt tensioner as the MY99/00 tensioner has a habit of going soft.
The knocking you hear is the tensioner plunger bouncing off the engine case/webbing where it should normally push tight against.
Mine doen this after 20000 miles and hasn't done it again since a new design tensioner was fitted.
It wouldn't be the first time this was mis-diagnosed.
The engine in Worzel's car (before he bought it) was taken out of a Hawkeye STI by a Subaru dealer with expected Big End failure only for Daz Davis to strip it and find it was a tensioner failure.
Fingers Crossed for ya.......