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Unfortunately when the engine heats up the ticking starts. I can literally stand there and start to hear it as it progresses.
I drove it home from work last night to Brandon approximately 50 miles and by the time I got home there is definitely a noticeable tick.
I'm thinking that maybe one of those cylinders I didn't hog out enough it's nothing like it was before.
Before it was holy Batman now it sounds like a typical V 8 that might have a lifter or two that maybe isn't quite pumping up enough.
Obviously I let the truck sit overnight when I went out there this morning to start it up there is absolutely zero noise, no noise whatsoever by the time I got back to Bradenton my shop it sounded the same as I had heard it yesterday just a little bit of ticking.
I can only assume that it's a pushrod tapping the head maybe one pushrod I'm going to drive it for 500 miles or so and I think the noise is going to go away.
I really do appreciate the responses on this forum.
Kind of sucks that I had to do it twice but on the same token I can really appreciate the experience.
I consider this to be a success I'm pretty anal about things and the average person that walks up to the truck probably would hear the ticking that I'm hearing but wouldn't think much of it.
Last edited on Thu Oct 18th, 2018 05:19 am by 1930