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Has the dealer drained the engine oil yet? If not, go there and ask them to drain it in front of you. If the noise is coming from either the main bearings or from the connecting rod bearings, then you have a failed bearing (these are not ball or roller bearings, but rather sleeve bearings...

You can buy a compression tester for ~$50.00 (add it to your toolbox!) All you have to do is pull all of your spark plugs, disconnect your ECM or unplug the leads to your fuel injectors. You then install the compression checker into a cylinder, crank over the engine until the needle on the gauge...

Do a compression test and compare the results to the factory specs, if any (or all cylinders) are out of spec then take it to a shop and have them do a leak down test on the engine. A leak down test is where you bring each cylinder up to TDC (top dead center where both the intake & exhaust...