I've made a few post the past few years about my old worn out and tired truck.
It has a neglected motor that was in really poor shape when I got the truck. I removed valve covers and valve train was caked in crud. PCV port in throttle body was plugged. She burns oil really fast. Rough idle. All kinds of "ticking" and "knocking" going on all the time....under acceleration, hot idle, cold starts, etc.
After changing plugs and wires, the engine ran much better (plugs were fouled). I built the throttle body and that helped too. Adding RESTORE to oil and keeping her on a diet of MMO has really cleaned up the engine and I gained further improvement in way the engine runs. So....overall, things were getting better. Issues unresolved: Oil consumption in cylinder #1 is horrific....and the ticking/knocking hasn't improved. In fact, recently, it got MUCH worse.
I could get the engine noise to change when I shifted from park to drive, or drive to neutral, etc. now that the noise was almost deafening. So I had an idea it was the flexplate in the tranny. I got the truck back from the shop last night (flexplate replaced with a new one)....and BOY, this truck is WHISPER quiet!!! It sounds soooo good.
I guess I never had a valve train or bearing problem....piston slap or bent rod. It has always been the flex plate. This morning she fired up from a cold start and it was like BUTTER. I'm a happy camper.
Just posting this in case anyone else thinks they might have a lifter tick or valve train problems....bearing knock or anything else. It was my flexplate.
It has a neglected motor that was in really poor shape when I got the truck. I removed valve covers and valve train was caked in crud. PCV port in throttle body was plugged. She burns oil really fast. Rough idle. All kinds of "ticking" and "knocking" going on all the time....under acceleration, hot idle, cold starts, etc.
After changing plugs and wires, the engine ran much better (plugs were fouled). I built the throttle body and that helped too. Adding RESTORE to oil and keeping her on a diet of MMO has really cleaned up the engine and I gained further improvement in way the engine runs. So....overall, things were getting better. Issues unresolved: Oil consumption in cylinder #1 is horrific....and the ticking/knocking hasn't improved. In fact, recently, it got MUCH worse.
I could get the engine noise to change when I shifted from park to drive, or drive to neutral, etc. now that the noise was almost deafening. So I had an idea it was the flexplate in the tranny. I got the truck back from the shop last night (flexplate replaced with a new one)....and BOY, this truck is WHISPER quiet!!! It sounds soooo good.
I guess I never had a valve train or bearing problem....piston slap or bent rod. It has always been the flex plate. This morning she fired up from a cold start and it was like BUTTER. I'm a happy camper.
Just posting this in case anyone else thinks they might have a lifter tick or valve train problems....bearing knock or anything else. It was my flexplate.
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