Ok, so a while back I did the rear main seal in my jeep, it was in fact the worst time of my life. Ok I ended up loosening the bearing caps so the crank would lower so I could get the seal out. Did everything I was supposed to and primed the oil pump and everything. Well, I haunt started it since and I just put oil in it and started it. There is a sort of rubbing sound, sounds like friction. It's pretty loud. I don't know why and it wasn't there before. I'm scared out of my mind right now for my jeep. What is this noise??????????? Please help!

 

that sucks, maybe a short vid would help, should have titled it, cruiser/ walker plz help

 

x2 a video would help a lot in this case. Where is the noise coming from?

 

I might be able to get a vid. It sounds like it's coming from underneath the engine.

 

If nothing more I would at least drop the pan. Double check the end play of the crank.

Then pull off each crank bearing cap (one at a time) and inspect the bearings. You're looking to see if any of the bearings spun. While you had the bearing caps loose before did you turn the crank? That could have caused a bearing to become dislodged and move out of it's seated position.

If everything looks good put it back together and then do the video.

 

Never touched the crank at all. Just took of the caps. You think it could be from over tightening one of the bearing caps??

 

Long shot, but maybe the separator plate got tweaked pulling the pan and the flexplate is rubbing.

 

I'm almost afraid to ask...but what did you torque the caps to?

 

why on earth did you loosen the caps to lower the crank? thats just a horrible thing to do to get the RMS out

 

Bingo.. $20 says thats his problem. It's pretty common to do actually. The plate is called the inspection plate.

Common to do so, relieves enough tension from the seal to aid in tapping out a stuck one. Just retorque the caps..

 

Did this because I had a lot of people that said this would help. And it did. It came right out afterwords.

 

oh he made it sound like he actually lowered the crank down noticeably.

 

80.

 

OMG... If the inspection plate is actually the problem I will be THE HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH!!! I will check tomorrow!!

 

NO! God no!