I Have A Ticking Noise? Help Please

[toxic]

i have a ticking noise coming from something in the engine bay.

sounds like its coming from the passenger side of the car towards the front of the engine.

its louder on start up but gets a bit softer after a 10 seconds of running but i can still hear it.

any idea's before i take it to someone to get looked at end up paying for things i dont need?

thanks

ash

[AlexCim]

Cold or Warm starts?

Could be the lifters just getting their first sqiurt of oil for the day.

Alternativly, the stock injectors are pretty damn loud on RB's?

Could also even be the fan hitting against a pipe (in my case FMIC) or wire thats loose?

[Tangles]

Has your timing belt been changed; or alternaviely how many (genuine) kms has the car done?

btw:- bring it out on the next sthn SA crusie!

Edited April 2, 2006 by Tangles

[oxford1327]

i had a similar noise with my series2 not long after a long trip recently so got the belts all done on the front including the timing belt just to be sure and noises all gone now, all the drive belts were cracked an mechanic said it sometimes happens cos of the chemicals they spray the cars with when they de-bug them for quarantine?.

must react with the rubber i spose.

[toxic]

timing belt was done very recently

its on both warm and cold starts

fan clears the cooler pipe... just

i took it to my local mechanic today and he thinks its the exhaust manifold gasket. sound right to you guys?

[AlexCim]

"Just"

Theres your issue

Paint some black paint on your pipe, then start it and see if it rubs any of the black paint off.

I know because my pipes are painted black and the paint gets taken off. Put some sandpaper there to wear it down.

[toxic]

no it isnt that.

it clears. that was the first thing i thought it was.

there is a 5 mm gap

ive grabbed the pipe and pulled it up away from the fan and its still there. ive also pushed the pipe down and it still doesnt quite touch the fan, its braced quite solid.

[beastien]

A mate of mine had a leaking exhaust manifold gasket on his VL, and it had similar symptoms.

A loud ticking noise that gradually dissapeared as it warmed up.

[toxic]

hmm

well thats a good thing i guess

something that i can fix myself

annoying though... just takes money and time away from mods im planning

[beastien]

I'll be doing the same when i get my turbo high flowed, i had a nut missing off my exhaust manifold, Doesn't seem to be leaking but will pull it all off and replace the gasket just to be sure.

[Spammeoff]

I'll be doing the same when i get my turbo high flowed, i had a nut missing off my exhaust manifold, Doesn't seem to be leaking but will pull it all off and replace the gasket just to be sure.

I head a similiar noise that begun just after I had my cat off and on. I hunted it down to 3 nuts and studs missing from my exhaust manifold! I dunno where they went, car is an unmodified import. I guess the stress on manifold of me playing around with cat made it start to leak.

Why are other peoples exahust manifolds missing bolts too? Seems odd to me. Suppose I'll have to pull it to bits now!

[66yostagea]

what oxford1327 said interests me, ie the chemicals sprayed on to decontaminate the car. As mentioned in "electronic rust prevention" the undersides of my S1 ar veiled in a film of rust (corrosion). Especially the bits that were cad plated.Apart from having a flat battery yesterday this rust is the only thing that isses me off.

Its going to cost $640 at Endrust to get it fixed.

[AMS]

I had a tick going on... raced it to the lil ceramic bits in my exhaust From the turbo...

[Tangles]

what oxford1327 said interests me, ie the chemicals sprayed on to decontaminate the car. As mentioned in "electronic rust prevention" the undersides of my S1 ar veiled in a film of rust (corrosion). Especially the bits that were cad plated.Apart from having a flat battery yesterday this rust is the only thing that isses me off.

Its going to cost $640 at Endrust to get it fixed.

Odd - mine is completely rust free underneath - pefect! Nor have I found any ceramic bits as yet... as yet!

[AMS]

lol dont blow your turbo!

[66yostagea]

Odd - mine is completely rust free underneath - pefect! Nor have I found any ceramic bits as yet... as yet!

lucky

[Mr_RS4]

I've got the same noise in my series 1. Stock injectors are noisey. Seems to be a nissan thing, the ones in my sr20 wern't much quieter. But i have also noticed that the boost control solernoid is also a bit noisey.

[3intheBack]

There are pollution control solenoids which ticker away - best solution is to rubber mount them. However these are at the back of the motor and not the front, so I could be sending you on a rabbit hunt.

[Terminal]

my exhaust manifold cracked in half while on the car and i never heard a ticking sound. maybe i had a different problem

[66yostagea]

Though not a Stagea Tick, but still Nissan.

Gave the S13 an oil change and this time changed the filter and changed the plugs. Put in the required amount

of oiland on start up a diabolical tick. More like an elf with a sledge hammer. The boys thought some foreign body got in thru a plug hhole, etc etc etc. Every time it started, tick,tick wtf.

The oil light didn't come on an the ECU was checked. Nope.

In desperation I put a bottle of Nulon in. The effin tick Stopped. Why.

My thought is that somehow the oil pump got an air lock and maybe the extra bit of lubricant helped it pick up properly. I have never experianced any5thing like this in 50yrs of oil changing, and we have changed the S13 and 180sx drifters many times before with no probs.

After the noise went away, the car was taken for a thrash up toBrissie and the next day was flogged a bit at

Queensland Raceway.Runs sweet as a nut.

Has anybody experienced this type of problem? The guys on Sil had no ideas.