Hey guys, just joined the site i think this is pretty bad ***! I'll be on here 24/7 now, anyways. I got me a 2002 4.0L Ranger and she runs great. I've put 170,000 miles on it and it's still runnin like a champp for me. Only thing is i have this really noticable tick coming from under my hood. I change my oil every 2500 miles so i don't think it's that but i dont know. If you could hel me out I'd sure appreciate it! Cody

 

mine did this for a little bit mainly when i went out in a huge blizzard then everything thawed out and i can't hear it.

for some reason or another i feel like its the fan or a belt

 

timing chain rattle? common on them when the guide wears out

 

well since i had the timing chain rattle 2 years ago i can def say it doesn't sound like a tick but instead metal on metal

timing chain rattle is pretty straight forward on what it sounds like and when it occurs

 

idk i know some people who have had ticking in their engine and use a heavier oil like 10w 40 or something like that, and it stopped

 

i had a ticking sound also and i saw that it was one BAD dist. plug wire was SPARKING between it and the air flow tube thats right next to dist...the tube must have metal in it i guess...anyway..if its rockers or valves...use 30 ...dont not to too thick of oil ( i know LOL )
good luck
james

 

Well I heard from a couple guys that it may be my exhaust manifold gasket? I thought about putting different oil in, i've been using the synthetic valvoline oil, think i should maybe switch to something thicker? I dont want to go thrown something thicker in it and have her blow up on me lol

 

just as long as its not ridiculous thick you should be good, my friends blazer has a bad flange and it sound like ticking, and he sill hasn't torqued down his manifold bolts yet

 

Could also be a pulley like the idler pulley? Cheap part anyway, couldn't hurt to replace it. Check em and see if any of em wobble.

 

Hey thanks guys i really apprecaite the help. So glad i found this site.

 

Change your oil (for summer) to a 10w-20\30 oil fully synthetic, slightly thicker oil will coat things better but you MUST let your car\truck warm up a bit, because the oil is slightly thicker it takes a bit longer to get to the top of the block.


Let'er warm up and I bet that tick goes away for the most part. If that doesn't do it then add 1\3 cup of Lucas motor oil treatment

 

So just curious, what happens one morning iim running late and in a hurry and i forget to warm my truck up first? Would it hurt my block bad?

 

idk it depends if the oil pump can pump the thicker oil through enough

 

I may get flamed for suggesting this but my 94 Ranger had a ticking sound and I thought it might be a lifter issue, so about 200 miles before it was due an oilchange I put a quart of ATF in the engine and drove it for a week with it in the engine and it quiettened down the noise and it has not returned so maybe I got lucky. My oil level was about 1/2 quart low when I added the ATF. Just a thought. Hard to know though without being there to hear the sound.