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Changed back to stock rockers, now check out this crazy noise!

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  • Start date Start date Mar 17, 2012
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tobalx

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just a shot in the dark but the clicking sound would either be heat or pressure, i wonder if somehow the fuel is being put into the cylinder after shut down and the fuel is pressurizing the cylinder and the clicking is from the pressure working its way out.???? or could you be out of time and it gives it a squirt and no spark on shutdown?? if it were me i would put a fuel pressure guage and vacuum guage and double check timing. smell you oil and see if it smells like fuel. i allso have had tfi issues that when the engine warmed up the idle would surge and engine would bog athen die alltogether. 15 mins later would start up and purrr like a kitten then............. well you get it. sorry i am a backyard mechanic and not a mustang guru but i'm finding things on my stang one prob at a time too. good luck. i really would like know what you got going on there.!!!
 

89FoxBodyStang

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not to sure either. to me it seems like too much fuel getting into the cylinders. maybe that can be caused by exessive rail pressure? im about to check my fuel pressure today. as well as timing
 

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you think swiching from 1.72's back to stock rockers i would have to adjust timing? hmm i wonder
 

nitrous_bob

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well you can speculate all you want

the rockers ARE NOT adjusted correctly plain and simple. so you can tell me how youve done it 500 times...but until you do it correctly, you can do anything and everything and it wont solve your problem

i have had the exact same noise when i did the first time.....when i did it properly...it didnt do it anymore.

did you prime the lifters for every rocker like i said ??? and not by bumping it over..... by using a 1/4 drive socket on the oil pump and a cordless drill
 

89FoxBodyStang

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problem is solved all i had to do was lower my fuel pressure (it was almost 60 PSI) and drive it around for a bit. the noise stopped after the drive.
 
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good to hear,now get the rockers back in there !!!!
 

89FoxBodyStang

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im gonna have to buy a new set since one of the crane's was cracked at the roller tip end. what do you reccomend?
 

ace940

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ground maybe? bad starter? idk thats weird.
 
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