pheer

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got the car back from the shop today and after fixing a spark plug wire i noticed a random ticking coming from underneath the car... the engine responds to each one and surges a bit.... any idea as to why or what this is?

EDIT: also, when i get to around 45-55mph, it stutters (?) a bit... any clue there?

pheer

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being the newb that i am, it almost sounds like the O2 sensors themselves are ticking, and maybe causing the engine to change because of this?

rdd014camaro

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since you mentioned you messed with the spark plug wires, are you sure you have them all on snug and snaped in appropriatley. Its kinda hard to feel sometimes. My car had a bad wire and was arking. It was making a ticking noise because of it and my car spuddered when it did it. At night you could see the ark pretty easily

pheer

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it's definitely more noticeable from under the car, but i'll check all the plugs tomorrow....

any other clues?

MonmouthCtyLS7

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Had a similar tick/spark under the car...if was a loose spark plug...thats what it sounds like.

pheer

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got autozone to read the codes for me... there were 3 different accounts of a bad O2 sensor, i'm assuming thats 2 for the ones i removed and one that i didn't, so i'm going to replace those tomorrow and see what happens

Jesseh1970

02 sensors tight?

pheer

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i'm not sure what you mean by tight

but, i did replace the O2's with "factory replacement" Bosch 13444 sensors, and i removed all the plug wires and reinstalled them, the ticking seems to have gone away for now, tho the car still seems down on power... (could it be because i'm running LTs without a proper tune?)