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1998 Ford Escort Possibly the timing belt.

Tiny
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  • 1998 FORD ESCORT
  • 4 CYL
  • FWD
  • AUTOMATIC
  • 90,000 MILES
Today my car started making a strange noise. This noise gets far worse when stress is put on the engine(turning a/c on). It also gets worse for a second when moving the car from park to reverse, etc. I believe the noise is coming from the timing belt unless the actual noise is simply echoing around. The engine still runs normally besides when idling(not all the time does it run abnormally while idling) or extremely lightly pushing the throttle.
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010 AT 10:17 PM

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Tiny
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Hi there can you describe the noise at all as this will help a lot.

Mark (mhpautos)
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Friday, August 20th, 2010 AT 4:38 AM
Tiny
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Well, I got someone to look at it for me. It turns out the air compressor is going bad. Thank you anyways!
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010 AT 10:04 PM

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