Loud valve ticking.

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Loud valve ticking.

Post by ragek23 » Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:22 pm

I recently got this nasty ticking in my engine. By probing around it sounds like it's coming from the head and not the low end. I pulled one spark plug at a time to make sure it wasn't a wrist pin. The FSM says that bad/dirty oil or low oil pressure could be a culprit so I changed my oil. I also went to use my scan gauge for oil pressure but I realized It doesn't pickup oil pressure :(. So I have narrowed it down to being a lash or something else in the cam shaft. I am gonna tear into the cylindar head tomorrow after work.

Any other suggestions?

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Post by occasional demons » Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:57 pm

Possible bad lash adjuster. Bad part is, you have to buy the whole rocker to fix it. (Unless you are lucky enough to have DOHC)
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Post by gtxtreme19 » Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:26 pm

I have both sides from an 04 magnum motor if you need the whole thing. Ill check my garage tomorrow morning
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Ticking Noise

Post by g_force58 » Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:11 pm

I had this in 200 ES sohc. Replaced all the rockers when I installed the new cam.......AHHHHHH silence is golden. :thumbup:
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Post by ragek23 » Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:01 pm

I have my stock cylinder head still all assembled so, I am gonna cannibalize it and use the lashes from that for now. I am using asanti's old setup that had a crane 14 in it for quite some time so there is no telling how old the lash's are in the head that's on my car right now.
occasional demons wrote:Possible bad lash adjuster. Bad part is, you have to buy the whole rocker to fix it. (Unless you are lucky enough to have DOHC)
so in other words i need this:
http://info.rockauto.com/getimage/getim ... IRA149.jpg
or this :
http://info.rockauto.com/getimage/getim ... ERA149.jpg

depending on if its the intake or exhaust. That would get quite expensive if I had to buy all the rockers.

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Post by occasional demons » Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:36 pm

Correct. Check Mancini Racing, maybe they still have some on their clearance, or engineering sale. I got a complete set for a very good price. I have two extra, but I can't remember which ones. I'll have to look. Im thinking intake. Ill let you know which I have. If they are what you need, I'll pass the savings along.
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Post by ragek23 » Fri Sep 03, 2010 12:06 am

It was an intake lash. Thank god I had lashes from my old head. Everything is fine now.

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Loud Ticking

Post by g_force58 » Fri Sep 03, 2010 8:04 am

howellautomotive.com has a complete sohc rocker set for $299.95. Those are what I bought and they are doing fine.
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Post by ragek23 » Fri Sep 03, 2010 5:51 pm

yeah i saw that but I wasn't gonna buy a single rocker arm cuz I have a full spare set laying around. I am just glad that was all that was wrong. For a bit there I thought i may have had a rob bearing gone.

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Loud Ticking

Post by g_force58 » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:41 am

Glad ya got it fixed my man :thumbup:
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Loud Ticking

Post by g_force58 » Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:01 am

Glad ya got it fixed my man :thumbup:
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