ticking noise after head install!
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ticking noise after head install! Its pretty hard to hear from the vid but if you listen closely you can hear it in the background, it sounds like a ticking noise when ever I give the car some gas WHILE driving only. When parked and revving, I don't hear anything. the higher the RPM the faster the tick, but again only when driving.... Is it a leak or just valve train noise?
EDIT: Maybe I didn't notice before but now I hear it at idle
Last edited by L76gt; Jun 16, 2014 at 01:26 PM.
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Sounds like a header flange leak on the drivers side from the idle video. Did you reuse the OEM gaskets, put new ones in or use something else?
If it is lifter noise (mine was louder underneath the car) then run it 1/2 qt low on oil. Solved mine. I think I had a lifter get air in it. Ted from JRE suggested it and as weird as it sounds, it cured mine.
If it is lifter noise (mine was louder underneath the car) then run it 1/2 qt low on oil. Solved mine. I think I had a lifter get air in it. Ted from JRE suggested it and as weird as it sounds, it cured mine.
