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> From: Michael Clark <mclark@wt.net>
> To: dakota@ait.fredonia.edu
> Subject: Ticking sound while warming up
> Date: Wednesday, July 02, 1997 03:10 PM
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> Hi all,
> I have been noticing a strange ticking sound after I start my truck and
> let it warm up. It is not rhythmic ie. lifters or injectors, it is
> sporatic like: tick.....tick..tick.........tick... well you get the
> idea. It seems to be in the exhaust somewhere [I'm not sure about that]
> above the cat or in the cat itself. But I can also hear it under the
> hood and under the truck. The sound is kinda like the sound you hear
> after you shut a car off and the motor cools and gives off the little
> clicks only these are just a bit louder than that. I've been noticing
> this for a few months now. Truck drives fine, idles fine, I just don't
> know what that ticking is and if I should worry about it. If anyone
> would like I could record a short wav file and post it on my home
> page....
>
Fuel pump by chance??? My '91 did that...then it eventually quit.
Maybe a bad Timex watch on a bomb?? (JUST KIDDING)...
Check your plug wires lately??? Maybe you have a spark that's
jumping through the jacket to ground...
A few things to check...
Sam '95 SLT
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