Lately I've been hearing a light "ticking" sound coming out of the
engine bay and when I was home from college this last weekend my dad
and I got under the hood of the truck to find out what was wrong.
First we thought it could have been a collapsed lifter, but we
checked the rocker arms on both sides and everything was tight. So,
we got out something to put down against the engine to better locate
the sound (used a long screwdriver) and from what we can tell the
"ticking" is coming from or around the area of the #7 injector. It's
kinda loud and can be heard from inside the cab when the radio isn't
on. It doesn't get any louder when you rev the motor (so we kinda
doubt it would be the lifters). It happens in sequence with the
pulse of the #7 injector, though. Is the injector going bad? When
we disconnected the power from the #7 injector it kept on ticking,
though. We even unplugged #5 just in case it was coming from that
one and it still didn't stop it. I've thrown some injector cleaner
in the tank, but after my 200 mile trip back to school a little while
ago it's still ticking. Does anybody have any idea what's going on?
Maybe it's a time bomb or something. . . Hey Jules, do you have any
idea what might be going on with the thing?
- Rob Cobb 93 V8 LE 2wd swb.
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