# For Stump the chumps

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/for-stump-the-chumps/53134>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [August 7, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/for-stump-the-chumps/53134 "2010-08-07T18:39:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Ramblin\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@Ramblin\_Man](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Ramblin_Man)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/for-stump-the-chumps/53134/1 "2010-08-07T18:39:21Z")

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I have a 1997 Mercury Cougar 3.8L. with 95K miles. Recently on a highway trip the engine started clattering loudly, I immediately pulled off the road and had the car towed to a Ford dealer in Indianapolis, In. After several hours of checking the oil pump pressure, compression, lifters, push rods, and other assorted hardware a visiting Ford engineer discovered the source of the clattering, (ie. clanging, banging, screeching, and no it was not my wife noise). What under five dollar fix repaired my car?

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/for-stump-the-chumps/53134/2 "2010-08-07T18:53:27Z")

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Was it a loose heat shield?