Re: 5.2 V8 Ticking Sound

From: mccabet@mediaone.net
Date: Fri Feb 13 1998 - 23:58:40 EST


Bob Bernstein wrote:
>
> I posted a question a few weeks ago about a ticking or putting sound when I
> accelerate from a stop, or really get on the gas. Not so noticeable when the
> truck warms up, but still there.
>
> After many theories (exhaust leak, poor gasoline, advanced timing, etc..) I
> brought the truck to the dealer and had them hook it up to the computer.
>
> Final determination:
>
> Sound is normal for Magnum V8. "That sound" I hear is the injectors pumping.
>
> No problem found, no charge. I can live with that.

That's what they told me too. Glad my 2.2 is not that noisy, I'd go
crazy listening to it. I just ignore it.

L8r

-- 
Thomas McCabe
-mccabet@mediaone.net
'80 Cordoba, 340, Auto (904) w/ shift kit & 6500 Rpm shift points, 3.23
SG
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    Gibson Cat-Back Exhaust, ARE A-234 15x7 rims w/ Dunlop GT Qualifiers
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