snoredog
Registered User
I bought the truck about a year ago, and it was smoking like a coal power plant till it warmed up a few minutes after that. On the 500 mile trip back home, me and dad started to hear a faint tapping sound from the engine. We both thought it was an exhaust leak because it would come and go without any real pattern. Then it stopped doing it until a few months ago. I undershifted bad trying to smoke the car behind me and the ticking/tapping came back for good this time. I read what somebody on here said about it possibly being a valve or injector. So I tried the run up and back off the throttle and the ticking is still quite loud. It is pretty quiet at idle and gets louder with increasing rpms. I parked it quick after that started cause I didn't want to trash the engine just yet. The guy before me didn't seem like he took great care of the truck, and he said he bought it from an excavating company. So basically I dont know what kind of care was taken of it and really dont know where to look for the problem. I know it is on the passenger side though and the exhaust has a chuff chuff chuff sound at a regular interval. My guess was exhaust valve. What do ya'll think and what are my options?
thanks in advance
thanks in advance