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Just remembered the oil pump is of course driven by the shaft! I blame the beer...

Ian i tried running her without any belts on for a short period but the noise persisted so I don't think it was the pumps. If I was you I would buy a cheap compression testing kit (about £15) which would provide vital insight into the issue. Think I'll be sending her to the scrap heap as I just...

OK, so managed to run it with the cam cover off (also had the inspection plate off the side, out of which poured quite a bit of oil on to the drive belts :/ Thankfully not too much though! The chains looks fine and as you say the small amount of chain noise that there is does disappear a few...

Yeah, I suppose it could be. Is running it like that ok for short periods? I've got no oil in it at the moment...

Hi, The mrs came home form work the other day with her micra ('96 1.0 16v, just under 100k miles) sounding like a transit van. The oil was low so I gave it a full service (sparks, oil + filter, fuel filter, air filter - it was about due for it) - I gave it a 5 minute run round the block and to...