My wife and I bought a house 3 months ago, so now I have a place to work.
While we were moving my Father in law allowed us to use his truck. The Ford F150 with 4.2 L V6. I noticed that at idle it had quite a loud ticking noise, so I checked the oil sticker and the level of oil on the dipstick. It was only 100 miles over the Jiffy lube 3,000/3month sticker but it was almost a full quart low.
So, being that I had a stash of Synthetic oil, and the filters from my Taurus fit this truck, I decided to give it an oil change and put in 4 oz of Auto RX while I am at it.
Fast forward 1 month. My Father in Law decides that he wants a new truck. He shops around and gets a Ford F250 Turbo Diesil to pull his boat around.
And he gives me this Truck as a gift!
Nothing better than a Free Truck.
Anyways, I have had it for 2 months now. I drive it on weekends and get it up to temp as much as possible, but it still has that tick at idle. The oil change that I put in there is still there, 5 qts M1 Truck and SUV, +2 qts Quaker State Torque Power and the 4oz of Auto RX.
I know the manuel says it takes only 5 quarts, but it took almost 7.5 to bring it up to the "full" line on the dipstick.
History of the Truck is that my Father in Law bought it used with a "Ford Certified" extended warrenty. He started to use it to tow his boat, but somewhere in there the engine went out and the Ford dealership dicided to replace it. So although the odometer on the Truck says 101,000 the engine only has 50,000 miles on it.
He keeps his cars rediciously clean on the outside, like you can literally eat from underneath the hood, and I imagine that he keeps the fluids changed regularly.
I plan on dropping the transmission pan this weekend and installing a aftermarket spin on filter on the cooler line.
But my question to you guys. How do you stop that lifter tick? Can you stop it?
While we were moving my Father in law allowed us to use his truck. The Ford F150 with 4.2 L V6. I noticed that at idle it had quite a loud ticking noise, so I checked the oil sticker and the level of oil on the dipstick. It was only 100 miles over the Jiffy lube 3,000/3month sticker but it was almost a full quart low.
So, being that I had a stash of Synthetic oil, and the filters from my Taurus fit this truck, I decided to give it an oil change and put in 4 oz of Auto RX while I am at it.
Fast forward 1 month. My Father in Law decides that he wants a new truck. He shops around and gets a Ford F250 Turbo Diesil to pull his boat around.
And he gives me this Truck as a gift!
Nothing better than a Free Truck.
Anyways, I have had it for 2 months now. I drive it on weekends and get it up to temp as much as possible, but it still has that tick at idle. The oil change that I put in there is still there, 5 qts M1 Truck and SUV, +2 qts Quaker State Torque Power and the 4oz of Auto RX.
I know the manuel says it takes only 5 quarts, but it took almost 7.5 to bring it up to the "full" line on the dipstick.
History of the Truck is that my Father in Law bought it used with a "Ford Certified" extended warrenty. He started to use it to tow his boat, but somewhere in there the engine went out and the Ford dealership dicided to replace it. So although the odometer on the Truck says 101,000 the engine only has 50,000 miles on it.
He keeps his cars rediciously clean on the outside, like you can literally eat from underneath the hood, and I imagine that he keeps the fluids changed regularly.
I plan on dropping the transmission pan this weekend and installing a aftermarket spin on filter on the cooler line.
But my question to you guys. How do you stop that lifter tick? Can you stop it?
