A little background:
I had an intermittent check oil light for a while due to leaky valve covers, which I band-aided at school for a few months since I had nowhere to work on the car. I'm home now and within the last few days heard a ticking noise on acceleration, it didn't seem to get faster or louder but I heard it most around 2000rpm. The next day I thought I heard a chatter that seemed to go from the driver's to the passenger's side of the car, but it was intermittent.
I just finished replacing the valve cover gaskets today, did an oil change, and added a can of Restore. I think I have the leak problem licked now, but when I took the car out to heat it up before finishing torquing the intake bolts, I heard the chatter again, but only on deceleration, right around 1500rpm. The idle seemed to hang for a split second there and when it dropped the chatter went away. The sound reminds me of sticking a piece of paper in a fan, and I'm convinced it's not the flip-up sunroof, or the ashtray door. I can try to get a video of the noise, but in the meantime, any ideas? Car has ~92k and mods are in sig.
Thanks.
I had an intermittent check oil light for a while due to leaky valve covers, which I band-aided at school for a few months since I had nowhere to work on the car. I'm home now and within the last few days heard a ticking noise on acceleration, it didn't seem to get faster or louder but I heard it most around 2000rpm. The next day I thought I heard a chatter that seemed to go from the driver's to the passenger's side of the car, but it was intermittent.
I just finished replacing the valve cover gaskets today, did an oil change, and added a can of Restore. I think I have the leak problem licked now, but when I took the car out to heat it up before finishing torquing the intake bolts, I heard the chatter again, but only on deceleration, right around 1500rpm. The idle seemed to hang for a split second there and when it dropped the chatter went away. The sound reminds me of sticking a piece of paper in a fan, and I'm convinced it's not the flip-up sunroof, or the ashtray door. I can try to get a video of the noise, but in the meantime, any ideas? Car has ~92k and mods are in sig.
Thanks.