So, over the past year or so I've been getting this "tick tick tick tick" while cruising at very light throttle. Within the last month or so it has become markedly worse.
The tick is most pronounced at just under 1500rpm and just under 2000rpm. Outside that range, the sound is still there, but not nearly as loud.. While in that range it echoes off the walls of my garage and I can hear it out my driver's side window cruising at 35mph.
I originally thought it was a plug working its way out, so I checked them and they were all perfectly tight.
The sound was there before I installed my headers. I thought it might be an exhaust leak, but it's still there after the header install and it has more of a solid "click" to it rather than the airy "pfft" or "tssst" of an exhaust leak.
The engine has ~60,000 miles on it.
I've tried to capture the sound with both my cell phone and digital camera, but neither have the frequency response to pick up the higher frequencies of the tick so it sounds really muffled..
Thoughts? I know these are very hard to diagnose over the internet, but maybe someone has the exact same symptoms..
Riley
The tick is most pronounced at just under 1500rpm and just under 2000rpm. Outside that range, the sound is still there, but not nearly as loud.. While in that range it echoes off the walls of my garage and I can hear it out my driver's side window cruising at 35mph.
I originally thought it was a plug working its way out, so I checked them and they were all perfectly tight.
The sound was there before I installed my headers. I thought it might be an exhaust leak, but it's still there after the header install and it has more of a solid "click" to it rather than the airy "pfft" or "tssst" of an exhaust leak.
The engine has ~60,000 miles on it.
I've tried to capture the sound with both my cell phone and digital camera, but neither have the frequency response to pick up the higher frequencies of the tick so it sounds really muffled..
Thoughts? I know these are very hard to diagnose over the internet, but maybe someone has the exact same symptoms..
Riley