It all started today. Started the car up, had some knock (which was previously posted about
here, but it was too slow to be a bearing, so it was assumed I had carbon buildup) which had gone away since my intake manifold cleaning, but suddenly came back today.
I drove the car home, a CEL comes on. I had to make a trip over to my parents, so I head over there, and maybe then I'd head down to Traverse City (an hour away) to get that CEL checked. Well on my way to my parents house the car developed a second, faster knock. This freaked me out, because in searching for my other knock problem, I've heard that a faster knock, or ticking sound, that continued with high revs was rod knock, and thats bad. So on my 6 mile drive, I stopped to check oil, that checks out. A little dirty since I'm due for an oil change (been 4k miles) but levels were right in the middle of the xxxx range on the dipstick. I continue, with the faster ticking noise is getting louder, to the point I can hear it at highway speeds. A car turns in front of me, so I slow down, then try to accelerate back up. I can't. Well, I can, but its VERY slow. I have no power, and the engine is starting to vibrate and sound like its trying to crap a watermelon out the tailpipe. Bad. By the time I reach my parents house, I can barely get it up the driveway. Once I do, my CEL is now flashing at me at a steady on-off-on-off rate. I turn the car off, and sit in a moment of silence.
This couldn't come at a worse time. The engine has always ran perfect and strong until today. I've taken no fast corners or hard driving in the last week or so, with my previous driving habits being an occasional sprint on the highway, and about a bi-annual trip down the twistiest of roads, M-119.
My only other symptom that I've been trying to address has been the high-idle that I've been getting this past week(won't drop below 1500 RPM's until I come to a complete stop, and then it settles down to about 1000 RPM and idles really rough, shaking my steering wheel and dash, but smooths out above 1200 RPMs).
Can someone tell me what they think is going on with my baby?
