Ticking (?) sound from somewhere when pulling someone out, etc?

[Daven]

in my experience a good way to find an exhaust leak if there is one present is to start the motor, have someone give it some gas while you lay under it. its gonna be loud under there, but if you wear some heavy glvoes (so you dont burn yourself) and just grab a section at a time the noise will change because the pitch of the ratling loose part will change based on where you are grabbing, keep grabbing closer and closer and the speed of the rattling will increase....hard to describe and the noise is best detected by an experienced ear. im sure many ppl will thiink this method is dumb bc you really shouldnt be touching hot pipes, when i do this i do it after the truck has sat and wear heavy leather gloves, maybe welding gloves?

But the weird thing is this sound isnt all the time. So it being an exhaust leak seems to sound a bit iffy. Not to mention my echaust is really loud having just a 2.5" glasspack hanging on a 2" pipe lol. No pipe after it. I am going to let the truck sit a bit now since i just got home and later on go out and start it so it makes the noise again. It goes away when warmed up and after a bit of driving when its just started, so u would think it would do it all the time.

 

[Daven]

Ok so i managed to find a little camera and recorded a bit of what it is doing. Sorry about the bad quality but its all i really have to work with. This is thr truck being started after it had been running for a good while doing some running around about an hour or so before this.

Couldnt link on this forum so put it on youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upGgznZeX5I

EDIT: My dad (one doing recording) said that it was louder underneath the truck

 

[Dave90ranger]

if you mean the sound like someone knocking on a door it sounds to me like its the engine knocking. cause my truck a few days ago when i drove it alot and it got fully warmed up and the temp gauge was going into the normal zone and getting kinda close to halfway it was knocking but when it sat for like an hour and i went and started it, the knock went away. so wat you can do is really either not worry about like i am because well mine went away and i havnt heard it since. so thats my best guess on your issue since i could hear it. to try and get rid of try some fuel system cleaner in your gas tank when you fill up from empty next time and that might help. also just check the timing with a timing light.

 

[Daven]

if you mean the sound like someone knocking on a door it sounds to me like its the engine knocking. cause my truck a few days ago when i drove it alot and it got fully warmed up and the temp gauge was going into the normal zone and getting kinda close to halfway it was knocking but when it sat for like an hour and i went and started it, the knock went away. so wat you can do is really either not worry about like i am because well mine went away and i havnt heard it since. so thats my best guess on your issue since i could hear it. to try and get rid of try some fuel system cleaner in your gas tank when you fill up from empty next time and that might help. also just check the timing with a timing light.

Ive been thru a few tranks of gas since i first noticed it happening. And its not a knocking sound, but a ticking kind of sound. My dad said it might be the rocker arms (? idk really what this is yet lol, but u guys do )

 

[Vanner1993]

Yours sounds just like mine does now, speeds up with rpms etc. I think it might be a rocker arm but idk.

 

[BRUTUS_T_HOG]

sounds like a lifter to me. try adding some marvel mystery oil or some other stuff, that usually frees a sticking lifter.

my truck does this noise on cold mornings sometimes and goes away after it gets warm

 

[Daven]

sounds like a lifter to me. try adding some marvel mystery oil or some other stuff, that usually frees a sticking lifter.

my truck does this noise on cold mornings sometimes and goes away after it gets warm

ya mine does too every time i start (in canada so its cold here every morning lol). But it also starts doing it after doing some more serious pulling or when i have to get thru something that otherwise will suck my truck in lol.

I dont know much about these parts yet, so how much is it to replace? Fairly simple by any chance? lol And what else can i do to make sure thats a good diagnosis?

 

[BRUTUS_T_HOG]

lifters on a pushrod v6? not exactly a quick and simple fix. you'd have to pull the intake manifold off, but as i said you can try to add some "magic" oil to try to free the lifters. it works about 50% of the time

 

[Daven]

lifters on a pushrod v6? not exactly a quick and simple fix. you'd have to pull the intake manifold off, but as i said you can try to add some "magic" oil to try to free the lifters. it works about 50% of the time

Ok thanks. I dont know much about anything in the engine and stuff unfortunately (im trying to learn as i go lol), but me and my dad will pick some up tomorow. I apreciate the help and hope it works

 

[Psychopete]

Heads also need to come off the 2.9L to get the lifters out.

My neighbor has a late 80ish Ranger in his back yard. I know it has a 2.9L in it because of the exahust sound and the fact that I have to hear that thing tick during warm up every (cold) morning at 6:30am.

Mine ticked when cold, finally ticked when run hard down the high way. Went the rebuild route, and that resolved a lot of problems. Wish I would have just gone with a new set up then tho, would have saved me a lot of cash!

 

[Daven]

Heads also need to come off the 2.9L to get the lifters out.

My neighbor has a late 80ish Ranger in his back yard. I know it has a 2.9L in it because of the exahust sound and the fact that I have to hear that thing tick during warm up every (cold) morning at 6:30am.

Mine ticked when cold, finally ticked when run hard down the high way. Went the rebuild route, and that resolved a lot of problems. Wish I would have just gone with a new set up then tho, would have saved me a lot of cash!

Ya i know. I dont want to do anything really to this engine because i want to eventually throw in a 302. But this truck has 292XXXkms on it so i would wanna to the whole drivetrain... and that cant be cheap if u cant do it yourself :/

 

[Daven]

Ok so i got some of that stuff and had an oil change done with it put in. I havent been able to run it yet other than the ride home but ill post if it does fix the problem. Right now the trucks sitting with the battery in the passenger seat while i try and do some electrical stuff lol. Thanks alot for the input and i hope it helps a bit. If not, im not too worried because i wanna swap the engine in a bit anyways lol If it lasts another year or so im good

 

[BRUTUS_T_HOG]

battery in the passenger seat? say goodbye to that seat.

 

[Daven]

battery in the passenger seat? say goodbye to that seat.

huh? lol Its actually on the floor infront of the passenger seat, but how would that wreck my seats anyways? lol iiiinteresting