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Old May 6, 2007 | 01:09 AM
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ok my car been making a weird sound after i installed my lt headers. trying to figur out what it is. it makes the ticking sound near under the floor or its like towrd the dash on the driver side. sorry for the bad video but you can hear the ticking type of sound some. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK_fQ_5NSNw any one got a idea on what it is
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Old May 6, 2007 | 11:04 AM
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Old May 6, 2007 | 03:56 PM
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Your yipe is hitting the floor board cause mine did the same thing. I purchased a heater clamp and heater hose and wrapped it around the area of the ypipe where its most tightest (my ypipe ory was basically touching my floorboard so i put mine right under where the driver seat is). this should be a quick fix bro.
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Old May 6, 2007 | 04:30 PM
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no trust me its not the ypipe hitting because i took it to a exhaust shop and they found out where it was hitting and had the pipe heated and flatend the pipe out some. plus i had the pipe hit before and its not that.
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If it's not that, I just fixed a ticking sound myself. It turned out to be the 8th plug being bad. Not the spark plug itself but the plug. Which I replaced and now the ticking has gone away.
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Old May 6, 2007 | 07:16 PM
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what do you mean not the spark plug the plug. because i replaced all the spark plugs in it when i did the headers
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what do you mean not the spark plug the plug. because i replaced all the spark plugs in it when i did the headers
Did you replace all the plugs as well? The plugs that connect to your spark plugs to the coil paks?
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Just listened to your clip but it's hard to hear the ticking sound. Does it tip at idle?
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Old May 6, 2007 | 11:55 PM
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no at ideal it dont and it seems like if i rev it while im its parked it really dont do it.
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Old May 7, 2007 | 08:30 PM
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Old May 7, 2007 | 08:30 PM
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could it be ping?
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Old May 7, 2007 | 09:54 PM
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Hmmmmm, I don't know man. Come on ls1tech guys, you guys know 10 times more then me. Help this guy out!
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Old May 8, 2007 | 12:59 AM
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yea could it be coming from the egr or spark plugs or what? or does it just sound like exhaust is leaking or just somthing is hitting
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Old May 8, 2007 | 01:27 AM
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It could be an exhaust leak. I'm actually removing the EGR and air this weekend to clean up the engine bay a bit.
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Old May 8, 2007 | 09:14 AM
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Just an idea when I installed my long tubes, one of the tubes was rubbing against a huge factory weld on the k-member I cut it off with a saws-all and no more noise...
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Old May 8, 2007 | 09:25 AM
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ticking sound is probably exhaust leak. check all gasket areas. check AIR tube gaskets, if you still have AIR system.

when the other guy says "plug" I guess he means spark plug wire (????).
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Old May 8, 2007 | 11:08 AM
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how would the air tube effect it because the egr one is the one that is the one that was moved . when installing the headers. but i dont think its the header hitting
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Old May 8, 2007 | 11:13 AM
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i would say a exhaust leak somewhere-did u clamp or weld?
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Old May 8, 2007 | 11:35 AM
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it was clamped but now its weldedbut i still got the 2 clamps on the collecoor to the ypipe but there really tight on on there. so i dont see how it could leak. you think from still having the stock catback its creating alot of backpressure and making it leak. like it only does it on the one side
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Old May 8, 2007 | 11:44 AM
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you will have to listen more closely to find the area it it coming from. the place where the AIR tube connects has two 10mm bolts. there is a gasket that goes there that can cause a ticking sound if it is not sealed.
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