Aight, I dunno if it's just me, and, I know this may seem to belong in the tech section, but I figure it's more just something to chat about, more like, opinions.
So, this is my question/issue i'm wondering about. Pretty much every 4.6 or 5.4 I've come across(friends/family etc etc) has a knock to it, only noticable at idle. This i've noticed mostly in the 5.4 ford trucks. Everytime i'm next to one, like, today at teh bank, I was next to a brand new F150, it was the V8, nice ass truck, anyways I turn my car off in teh drive through so I can hear well. So i'm listening and I hear that his truck has the exact same sounding knock that my 35thAnny has, my car has 107k on it tho. His knock sound I would say is about 4 times louder than mine. Now, the knock that I get at idle on my car seems to be top end, I know these engines bottem ends are pretty much bullet proof, so, can someone give me an explanation as to why they all have this knocking sound. Like, not the kinda knock that sounds like a bearing is bad, no way, just, a slight knock. I have two friends, who at some point had F250's. Both had 5.4 triton, both had the same sound as my car. No matter what kind of oil I use it's there ,but, I have no trouble the car runs great and plenty of oil pressure.
I pay alot of attention to things, and, every since I noticed the slight knock that my car does, I'm always listening to other vehicles to see if they do the same thing, and lotsa ford trucks seem to do it.
Is this just some common, not serious...thing?
Appreciate any insight. Also keep in mind i'm used to ovh engines, I just bought my '99 2 months ago, so i'm just now learning the ohc technology, never had any reason to before, my '97 explorer is ohv and '95 cougar is also, and my car was the '83 capri with a motor out of a '88 lincoln mk7. Pretty much same engine as stang, H.O. motor, I just converted to keep it carbuerated.....bad spelling prob. So anyways I dunno, I was thinking lifter, low pressure, ya know, but, are there lifters in a ohc engine? Heh, forgive the noobness, when it comes to a 5.0 I know it in and out, the 4.6 i'm just now bothering to discover. damn this post is long for such a simple point, sry for the long read if you made it this far
Thanks for input, and probably alot of patience, otherwise i'd expect negative feedback heh. I just cant get why I've heard the same lil knock sound in like 15 fords, all modular 4.6 or 5.4. Peace out, Stangs> forever
-Dave
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So, this is my question/issue i'm wondering about. Pretty much every 4.6 or 5.4 I've come across(friends/family etc etc) has a knock to it, only noticable at idle. This i've noticed mostly in the 5.4 ford trucks. Everytime i'm next to one, like, today at teh bank, I was next to a brand new F150, it was the V8, nice ass truck, anyways I turn my car off in teh drive through so I can hear well. So i'm listening and I hear that his truck has the exact same sounding knock that my 35thAnny has, my car has 107k on it tho. His knock sound I would say is about 4 times louder than mine. Now, the knock that I get at idle on my car seems to be top end, I know these engines bottem ends are pretty much bullet proof, so, can someone give me an explanation as to why they all have this knocking sound. Like, not the kinda knock that sounds like a bearing is bad, no way, just, a slight knock. I have two friends, who at some point had F250's. Both had 5.4 triton, both had the same sound as my car. No matter what kind of oil I use it's there ,but, I have no trouble the car runs great and plenty of oil pressure.
I pay alot of attention to things, and, every since I noticed the slight knock that my car does, I'm always listening to other vehicles to see if they do the same thing, and lotsa ford trucks seem to do it.
Is this just some common, not serious...thing?
Appreciate any insight. Also keep in mind i'm used to ovh engines, I just bought my '99 2 months ago, so i'm just now learning the ohc technology, never had any reason to before, my '97 explorer is ohv and '95 cougar is also, and my car was the '83 capri with a motor out of a '88 lincoln mk7. Pretty much same engine as stang, H.O. motor, I just converted to keep it carbuerated.....bad spelling prob. So anyways I dunno, I was thinking lifter, low pressure, ya know, but, are there lifters in a ohc engine? Heh, forgive the noobness, when it comes to a 5.0 I know it in and out, the 4.6 i'm just now bothering to discover. damn this post is long for such a simple point, sry for the long read if you made it this far
Thanks for input, and probably alot of patience, otherwise i'd expect negative feedback heh. I just cant get why I've heard the same lil knock sound in like 15 fords, all modular 4.6 or 5.4. Peace out, Stangs> forever
-Dave
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