Recent content by Samsquanch22

It’s fixed! I shimmed the top of my starter with a washer and the noise is completely gone. The bendex gear must have been coming in contact with the flexplate while running. Thanks to everyone who threw out ideas!

Will do! Today i dropped the oil pan and replaced the hv oil pump with a standard one. I thought it might be pumping too much oil and starving. No change to the tick.

Welp, i couldn’t seem to find a loose bolt knocking around in there. After thinking about it some more it was a pretty farfetched idea. That would have been much more dramatic/catastrophic. I backed the jeep up onto some ramps. Tilted forward, it would not tick. As soon as i drove it down off...

I think I’ve thought of it, and if I’m right I’m embarrassed. While installing my valve cover, i dropped the rearmost bolt. I didn’t find it under the jeep but figured it probably landed on some bracket and would fall out as soon as i drove off. I thought “everything is all sealed up back there...

Thanks for the idea! Id stethoscoped the distributor already looking for vibration, but after your comment i pulled the cap and rotor and checked the shaft. No side to side play. On my drive home i went up a steep hill which reeeally increased the tick to a scary buzzy chirpy level. It seems...

My fan shroud is off at the moment, but thanks for the response! I’m crossing my fingers it’s something simple like that. I’ll be embarrassed for posting on here, but happy. I know noise locations can be deceiving, but it really sounds like it’s coming from the bottom end, bell housing/rear oil...

Alright so I drove the jeep to work today to get the juices flowing and have an update: While I’m driving along and it’s ticking away and i throw it in neutral, the ticking immediately stops. Every time. If im at a stop and i gun it in drive, it ticks very rapidly. If i gun it in reverse it...

If my answer comes in a $7 bottle I’ll be very happy. I replaced a quart of my oil with some MMO. No immediate effect, but I’ll give it some time to work its magic. I’ve had a tick before that two mechanics assured me was lifter tick, but it sounded very different. It followed the RPMs much...

Cruiser—your tips have been super helpful for me, thanks for the time you spend helping people with their jeeps! This morning I started it and had the tick immediately at a fairly high rate. I waited 30 seconds or so and shut it off. Waited 10 seconds, restarted it. For about 20 seconds there...

I have a 1990 4.0L automatic XJ with a fun new tick that I’m trying to diagnose. After starting, 10 seconds later the ticking starts. It’s random, not rhythmic. When i put it in reverse, the ticking increases. When i increase the RPMs, the ticking increases. It usually goes away after a minute...