spun bearing?

so i think i spun a bearing omw from dville the other night.. i heard what i thought was my heat shield was rattling again then as i was exiting at the villa rica exit it started knocking like crazy.... im wondering what to do

car will crank but im not going to move it

184000 miles
02 wrx wagon

 

possibly. drain your oil and check for metal bits. they will look copper/brownish in color. if so its pieces of a rod bearing

 

You can usually see it on the dipstick oil too if you get it in the light.

 

At 184,000 miles I'll go out on a limb and say without looking at the oil that it is a spun bearing.

Time to go hybrid.

 

Indeed.

 

x2

use an oil strainer when you drain the oil and it'll catch any metal bits for closer inspection ... although metal shavings in oil are pretty obvious

a 2.5L block sounds pretty good right now

 

Sent you a PM!

 

I love how its not even diagnosed yet and everyone is trying to sell the poor guy a motor build

 

I think everyone on this site is a vendor now.

 

Everyone? I sent a pm offering assistance with his car.

 

Not knocking you guys.

I'm more commenting on how dead the forum has become. Seems like vendors post more than anyone these days.

 

I wouldn't consider offering diagnosis advice a sales pitch.

... but in the case that the bottom end is gone, a new shortblock or rebuild would be in order.

I've noticed that too. I'd like to click 'new posts' and have more than 3 or 4 threads to look at

 

calm down boys...I just thought it was funny...and I was including myself, not pointing fingers.

I also agree about the lack of activity on the forum, boy if you need some vendor advice this is the place to post tho

 

i wish i got paid for my advice, whether it was right or wrong

 

Amen...don't we all.

 

Hope your heads didnt go out if you drove on the car, either way they'll need to be cleaned out for sure.

Out of curiosity, what kind of oil were you using?

 

With 184K miles probably a bit of everything.