Hoping someone out there with more knowledge than me can lend me some advice. I bought my FJ60 cheap because it had a knock. A friend of mine who has been a professional mechanic for several years pulled the pan and said that we can replace the main bearings and the camshaft and fix the knock. Anyway, after sitting in his shop for 5 weeks I handed him $2,000 and he said it runs great, fixed but the slight knock you hear now is from a tooth missing from your transmission. I believed this because when the clutch was in and I reved the engine, there was no knock. In the last month, 300 miles since repair, another friend said that it wasn't possible that the tranny would make such a noise and after he drove it he thought the rod bearings are bad. I told him it isn't loud when its cold and he said definitely. My question is: Does this sound reasonable? Why would my mechanic friend miss this? Is he lying to me when he says its a transmission noise or did he just not know and how easy is it to change the rod bearings? I love the truck but have already put $2,000 into an engine with 200k on it. Any advice out there?
Thanks
Mark
Thanks
Mark