Humming sound comming from intake.

[SASKCB7]

I noticed that there was a weird humming noice comming from the intake the other night. My friend who seems to know what he's doing said it's the timming is off aftrer replacing my distributor.
Any thoughts on the topic?

[deevergote]

I've never known the distributor timing to cause a humming sound in the intake... however, if you replaced the distributor and did not properly set the timing, then the timing IS off.

[cuate01221]

I noticed that there was a weird humming noice comming from the intake the other night. My friend who seems to know what he's doing said it's the timming is off aftrer replacing my distributor.
Any thoughts on the topic?

Don't ever let your friend work on the car. If your timing was off, your car would feel like it didn't have power. The humming sound it most likely coming from a broken gasket on either the throttle body(easiest to check) or the intake manifold.

[cb7 dohc]

Try not to let people work on your car So when you replace the dizzy did the car run the same. And did you guys use a timming light to check to see if the timming was off

[deevergote]

He didn't say anyone was working on his car. His friend just said the timing may be off.

[SASKCB7]

Yeah I am pretty low on the mechanical scale. I can throw the parts on but didn't bother to check with my Haynes manual first.. Yea, the car ran the same after replacing the distributor. I had an engine light come on one night and the humming was the only difference I noticed. Wheathee it had occurrd before that point I don't know. But there was also a tail light that went out the same night, thanks to the cop for noticing lol. The next morning when I went to replace the bulb it was working again and the engine light was off, Im not sure I'd that ties in though.... Anyways, I'll check if the humming is still there and make sure the timming is correct. Thanks guys

[Wickit]

Is the sound like a "whirling" high pitched noise? Because mine is doing that too. And I was wondering why as well or if they are just like that. It SORTA sounds like a fake turbo spooling, that's the best way to describe it. But after an oil change it wasn't AS loud and my "maintance required" light went off. So u might just need a tune up or oil change cuz that helped mine.

[Ander]

The maintenance required "light" is actually just a piece of paper that slides.
The only thing that indicates is when 3,000 miles have gone by since the last time you reset it.