Audible knock with no KR?

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Mar 23, 2007 | 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by budhayes3

For the folks who have real pinging and everything else checks out (premium fuel, not lean, timing OK, not running warm, etc), you could try the old Seafoam treatment to clean some of the carbon out of the combution chambers...it may help. Do a search for "Seafoam" and a bunch of stuff should come up

I was thinking the same thing.

Mar 23, 2007 | 01:05 PM

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My engine has less than 10K miles on it....would that be a problem already?

Mar 23, 2007 | 01:41 PM

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I seriously doubt it. Being in AZ though I would point to our gas. It's literally **** water at 91 octane and I get bad batches from time to time. Put some 100 octane in and see what happens. Seafoam or GM top engine cleaner couldn't hurt though.

Mar 23, 2007 | 03:01 PM

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Audible knock seems to go away when I spray meth....you're probably right about shitty gas.

Mar 23, 2007 | 04:32 PM

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Yea, I wouldn't doubt that it's poop gas quality...although you still might benefit from some Seafoam since you were experiencing that oil consumption problem. Probably won't help with the pinging, but it couldn't hurt.