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Hi all,
I'm driving a 1995 Disco that has developed a rather annoying ticking sound. The truck has got 133,000 miles on it or 215,000 kms. I just had it into the shop to fix sudden loss of power issues and it turned out to be a lot of leaks in and around the intake and intake manifold. $3000 later and a new intake and it runs a million times better. Thing is its got this tick, before it went in it would tick only when cold and then go away once it warmed up or the oil pressure got high enough. After fixing the power issue my mechanic told me to do a chemical hot oil flush and changed the oil and hopefully that would solve the noise problem. Thing is though after doing that, the ticking is much worse, it will come on when hot or cold, driving or parked. It will go away if I rev the engine to 3000rpm but then only for a short time, it will be back shortly after. I used a BG engine purge kit to flush the oil and use Motul 5w-40 synthetic with a synthetic Fram filter. The truck usually just makes short trips to and from work, about 10 minutes each way and I use regular 87 octane fuel. It has a supercharger mounted on top which makes it difficult to remove the valve covers if its a lifter making the noise.
I think it might be the oil pump possibly, but if anyone else has any ideas that could help me solve it, it would be greatly appreciated.
I'm driving a 1995 Disco that has developed a rather annoying ticking sound. The truck has got 133,000 miles on it or 215,000 kms. I just had it into the shop to fix sudden loss of power issues and it turned out to be a lot of leaks in and around the intake and intake manifold. $3000 later and a new intake and it runs a million times better. Thing is its got this tick, before it went in it would tick only when cold and then go away once it warmed up or the oil pressure got high enough. After fixing the power issue my mechanic told me to do a chemical hot oil flush and changed the oil and hopefully that would solve the noise problem. Thing is though after doing that, the ticking is much worse, it will come on when hot or cold, driving or parked. It will go away if I rev the engine to 3000rpm but then only for a short time, it will be back shortly after. I used a BG engine purge kit to flush the oil and use Motul 5w-40 synthetic with a synthetic Fram filter. The truck usually just makes short trips to and from work, about 10 minutes each way and I use regular 87 octane fuel. It has a supercharger mounted on top which makes it difficult to remove the valve covers if its a lifter making the noise.
I think it might be the oil pump possibly, but if anyone else has any ideas that could help me solve it, it would be greatly appreciated.