BRL86
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- Indianapolis IN
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- 1996
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- Ford
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I’m the new owner of a 1996 ranger 2.3 5 speed truck. It has 187k miles and I’ll Start with what I did to it. I changed the spark plugs and wires, new radiator, new A/C parts, brakes and tires, and changed the spring hangers. I can’t get a lifter to quit ticking. I believe its a lifter, its a light tapping sound that sounds like a watch tick. It’s very very very intermittent, the only common way I can get it is if I run very high RPM, it will appear, but if I keep the RPM’s low, it is quiet. I changed the oil and it appeared when I fired it up again. I have run 1qt ATF and 4 qt’s 5w30, drove it for 60 miles and put fresh oil in. Still the same. I have driven it around 800 miles on that fresh oil, still comes and goes. I just dumped in some Seafoam into the crankcase, have about 50 miles with that in there, still hear it sometimes. It seems to be slowly going away but it can be heard every now and then. Some things to note, when I changed the oil the first time, the oil filter was wrong, it wasn’t an FL-1A, but a smaller one like a FL-420 something, bout the size of a Campbell’s soup can, instead of the bigger FL-1A. The truck runs very strong, will do 85 or so miles an hour with AC blowing, and feels like it has much more left. I can’t notice anything other than the tick, it runs cool, gets 28 MPG, and idles very smoothly/ quietly.
Has anyone had this before? Could it be a header or just one sticky lifter? It can’t be oil pressure because at high RPM/ redline, the pressure is the highest, but it doesn’t tick at idle.
Thank you in Advance,
Brad
Has anyone had this before? Could it be a header or just one sticky lifter? It can’t be oil pressure because at high RPM/ redline, the pressure is the highest, but it doesn’t tick at idle.
Thank you in Advance,
Brad