Some of yall read my old post about this issue.... The camaro has a ticking noise all the time... The first couple days it went away when warmed up, but now its constant... I tought ok.. bad lifters.... I changed all of the lifters and pushrods... note one lifter had damage... the retaining clip/spring came out.... went through HELL doing all of them, cranked her up and ITS STILL TICKING...lol.... brought it to my mechanic and he says that i might have a worn out camshaft.... Car is bone stock btw... help me please.... is it a bad cam or could i possibly still have air in one of the lifters?...

 

a buddy told me it might be a knock sensor.. can a bad knock sensor cause the engine to have a lifter like ticking?

 

Dont think they are any moving parts in the knock sensor to tick. So this is not just injector ticking? They tick pretty loudly and the valve trains are fairly noisy as well.
Wow checking lifters means pulling the heads..Pretty rare for roller cams to get screwed . At least cam change is easy compared to checking those lifters!

 

i dont have a sound clip but i found one on youtube... not exactly a camaro but pretty damned close to what mine sounds like


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeY_3HcC1MI

 

dumb question but are there any adjustments that i can make to the valvetrain... bone stock but would a longer pushrod solve the ticking?

 

make sure you have your valve lash right?

 

lmao valve lash?... please explain...i feel very dumb right about now

 

its a stock setup.. i thought there were no adjustments to the valvetrain in these unless is had been modded

 

well you said you changed the lifters, are the rockers on correctly?

 

I mentioned this in another post. But, it is near impossible to determine a engine sound without hearing it in first person.

Did you replace the lifters and push rods your self?

Does it sound like a valve? < See, yet again no way to know, unless you have heard these sounds before in person.