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1990 Toyota Camry engine knocking

Tiny
LOVEMY90CAMRY
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  • 1990 TOYOTA CAMRY
  • 4 CYL
  • FWD
  • AUTOMATIC
  • 201,500 MILES
My car has a oil leak that I'm aware of and its leaking from its oil pan and has for a while now so that car would run out of oil constantly. While I knew I could not afford to get it fixed right away. Now after having my oil light come on while driving I hard this terrifying noise come from my engine. So immediately I pulled over, after adding more oil my engine started to produce this loud knocking noise while idled but it would vanish until I reach 2 or 3k rpms. Is my engine going to go? Do I need to replace all of it?
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 AT 10:51 PM

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Tiny
MHPAUTOS
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Hi there,

I would say you have a bearing and low oil pressure problem, you first need to get the engine oil pressure tested with a mechanical gauge I need to know the cold idle pressure hot idle pressure and hot @2000RPM.

Mark (mhpautos)
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009 AT 12:22 AM

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