Might I have a bad lifter?
My car constantly sounds like a diesel truck. I hear it more noticably when I am in a garage, or around walls that echo back. It happens under slight load when I am accelerating, I don't know if it happens during WOT I think my exhaust drones it out. The faster I go the faster I hear this 'tick'. I can't really describe it better than a tick. Its like chugga chugga chugga chugga.
I am almost positive it is not an exhaust leak because I have had this problem before any exhaust work was done.
The rockers are not tapping, I used a stethoscope on the valve covers and hardly heard anything. If I start out in second gear instead of first from a stop and lightly get on it, I hear it the most.
Could this be a bad lifter? I also have a slight misfire pretty much all the time...
My car constantly sounds like a diesel truck. I hear it more noticably when I am in a garage, or around walls that echo back. It happens under slight load when I am accelerating, I don't know if it happens during WOT I think my exhaust drones it out. The faster I go the faster I hear this 'tick'. I can't really describe it better than a tick. Its like chugga chugga chugga chugga.
I am almost positive it is not an exhaust leak because I have had this problem before any exhaust work was done.
The rockers are not tapping, I used a stethoscope on the valve covers and hardly heard anything. If I start out in second gear instead of first from a stop and lightly get on it, I hear it the most.
Could this be a bad lifter? I also have a slight misfire pretty much all the time...