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Thanks again for advise given above - as an update and hopefully to help others, fingers crossed I've dodged some expense - for now.......... I ran the engine from cold with a stethescope testing noises around engine from sump up to heads - when cold the noise was more of a clack and softened to a l...

Thank you for the advice, will do theses checks and was going to pull each plug lead (with a glove on .....) to check if noise disappears at each cylinder - if not will add some wynns thick oil treatment to see for noise changes etc

Cheers
Ian

Hi all, Just wondered how serious / what this noise could be from my SD1 V8 Stag - always have regular oil changes (Millers Racing 10 60) and this is first time I've heard this deep knock which is more of a loud clack noise under load when cold and in line with revs but becomes this deep knock when ...