# Service bulletin 98876121A

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 601058
- Published by NHTSA: 1998\-06\-24
- Manufacturer's number: 98876121A
- Manufacturer's date: 1998\-04\-01
- NHTSA component: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE

## NHTSA's summary

VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT A CLATTERING NOISE AT IDLE SPEED ORIGINATING FROM THE TIMING CHAIN AND FRONT COVER AREA. \*YC

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Engine

## Vehicles listed

- 1993 to 1996 BUICK CENTURY
- 1992 to 1996 CHEVROLET BERETTA
- 1997 CHEVROLET BERETTA
- 1992 to 1997 CHEVROLET CAVALIER
- 1992 to 1995 CHEVROLET CORSICA
- 1997 CHEVROLET CORSICA
- 1994 OLDSMOBILE CUTLASS
- 1995 PONTIAC SUNFIRE
- 1996 to 1997 PONTIAC SUNFIRE

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [2000109](/recalls/tc/2000109.md), 2000-04-28: Engine
- [1999016](/recalls/tc/1999016.md), 1999-02-15: Engine
- [1995188](/recalls/tc/1995188.md), 1995-10-20: Engine
- [1994015](/recalls/tc/1994015.md), 1994-02-02: Engine
- [1993139](/recalls/tc/1993139.md), 1993-10-05: Engine

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [130089009](/bulletins/10246631.md), 2023-12-11, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\). Expanded Availability for Remanufacture and Return \(R\&R\) Electronic Control Modules
- [010601002A](/bulletins/10000782.md), 2003-03-31, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE. REVISED PISTON PIN REMOVAL / INSTALLATION PROCEDURE. \*TT
- [020601014](/bulletins/634708.md), 2002-10-07, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE. SUBJECT REGARDING REVISED LOWER INTAKE MANIFOLD INSTALLATION. \*TT
- [010602012](/bulletins/628890.md), 2002-03-21, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM. SOME OWNERS MAY COMMENT ON LEAKAGE OF A FEW DROPS OF COOLANT AFTER PARKING THEIR VEHICLE. \*TT
- [010601010A](/bulletins/620810.md), 2001-08-30, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE. SUBJECT REGARDING POLYMER SERVICE PISTONS. \*TT
- [990604005A](/bulletins/619360.md), 2001-05-24, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE. SOME OWNERS MAY COMMENT ON DRIVEABILITY SYMPTONS OF LONG OR HARD STARTS, CHUGGLE, ROUGH IDLE AND LIGHT OR INTERMITTENT MISFIRE DUE TO CLOGGED FUEL INJECTORS. \*TT
- [98054](/bulletins/615097.md), 2000-12-27, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE. GENERAL MOTORS HAS DETERMINED THAT SOME VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH 2.2 LITER ENGINES MAY DEVELOP A FAILURE OF THE CYLINDER HEAD GASKET LEADING TO EXTERNAL COOLANT LEAKS FROM THE CYLINDER HEAD GASKET TO ENGINE BLOCK JOINT. \*TT
- [876002A](/bulletins/615073.md), 2000-12-26, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE. SOME V6 ENGINES MAY, ON A VERY INFREQUENT BASIS, HAVE AN OIL ODOR CONDITION THAT IS GENERALLY ENCOUNTERED AFTER THE ENGINE'S OIL HAS BEEN CHANGED.TYPICALLY THE ODOR LASTS APPROXIMATELY 1000 MILES AFTER THE CHANGE OF OIL AND THEN DOES NOT REAPPEAR UNTIL THE NEXT CHANGE OF OIL. \*TT
- [98054](/bulletins/613596.md), 2000-07-25, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM. SUBJECT REGARDING ADDTIONAL INFORMATION FOR SPECIAL POLICY 98054 \- COOLANT LOSS, VISIBLE COOLANT LEAKAGE, OR COOLANT ODOR. \*\*MR
- [99088A](/bulletins/613594.md), 2000-07-25, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE. VOLUNTARY EMISSION CAMPAIGN INVOLVING VEHICLES EXHIBITING SYMPTONS RESULTING IN THE ILLUMINATION OF THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT OR THE ENGINE RUNNING ROUGH. \*\*MR

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