valves and or lifters?

ByPopularDemand · December 22nd, 2007, 05:45 PM

So my engine is making a nice ticking sound and the car shakes while its sitting in gear, kinda like its gonna die but the idle rpms are fine, and it does a lil shake when accelerating from a stop. Also just about all my low end power is gone, and the car doesn't really accelerate for crap at all now. I was thinking exhaust leak, but couldn't find anything myself. I took it to an exhaust shop and they didn't find anything either. They mentioned valves or lifters or something in the valve train. How bad is that, or do you think it could be something else

HMUSN · December 22nd, 2007, 06:07 PM

try a can of seafoam

Onemanzu · December 22nd, 2007, 06:23 PM

seafoam the vacuum to see if there is an exhaust leak... this will help eliminate that factor/option

tjames · December 22nd, 2007, 08:43 PM

may be the injectors are clogged also. there is a handful of things. is the car throwing any codes?

ByPopularDemand · December 24th, 2007, 02:18 PM

Well I had the exhaust looked at its not leaking, and I can hear thwe tick in the front of the engine somewhere. Also I put some fuel systemn cleaner in and engine oil treatment along with an oil change. its not quite as bad as it was friday

ByPopularDemand · December 26th, 2007, 11:51 AM

Bump...also I seem to be running lean and rich at the same time according to the neew codes being thrown

dgt_mustang · December 26th, 2007, 10:03 PM

i have the same problem with my car, everyone thought that it was an exhaust leak so everybody at work looked at it, (work at autozone) in the end they couldnt find anything but then i took it to one of my friends who works at a garage and he said it was one of my injectors tapping really freakin loud, take a stethoscope and stick the metal part on the tip of each injector and see if one is louder than the other, they also thought it was lifters but after a couple marvel treatments and seafoam and numerous other additives, it didnt do anything so it wasnt lifters.

dark-samurai2 · December 26th, 2007, 10:14 PM

check your 02 sensor. your running crappy because its switching from rich to lean like that. if you had a bad injector it would be a lot more prominent, also give your egr a look at. make sure none of the houses collapsed internally

ByPopularDemand · December 27th, 2007, 07:11 PM

Originally Posted by dark-samurai2

check your 02 sensor. your running crappy because its switching from rich to lean like that. if you had a bad injector it would be a lot more prominent, also give your egr a look at. make sure none of the houses collapsed internally

Its actually two codes at once, and where would these hoses be located? on a sidenote after driving the piss outta car on a 300 mileround trip to gallup its nt shaking as bad

El_Cangri · December 27th, 2007, 07:24 PM

WOW ur alive...

could you post the codes?

nice to see ya bro!! its been so much time

ByPopularDemand · December 27th, 2007, 08:04 PM

Yah no internet at home so I gotta post at work...the codes i left in the car: p1181 and 1182 lack of sw...something i think...they meant system lean and system rich respectively

El_Cangri · December 27th, 2007, 08:42 PM

thats ur prob..

have u made a tune or something?

change the fuel filter, run some seafoam and fuel system cleaner

ByPopularDemand · December 28th, 2007, 07:31 PM

That tune has been there since I got the tuner...I ran some fuel system cleaner, and where do I put the seafoam in at

December 22nd, 2007, 05:45 PM	#1
ByPopularDemand Hardcore Enthusiast 2000 V6 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 2,666 iTrader: 0 reviews	valves and or lifters? So my engine is making a nice ticking sound and the car shakes while its sitting in gear, kinda like its gonna die but the idle rpms are fine, and it does a lil shake when accelerating from a stop. Also just about all my low end power is gone, and the car doesn't really accelerate for crap at all now. I was thinking exhaust leak, but couldn't find anything myself. I took it to an exhaust shop and they didn't find anything either. They mentioned valves or lifters or something in the valve train. How bad is that, or do you think it could be something else __________________ 2000 V6 vert Mac LT headers, Mac O/R H-pipe, Mac CAI, ASP 25% underdrive pulley(r.i.p), SCT tune, 8.8 rear and 4.10 gears.

December 22nd, 2007, 06:07 PM	#2
HMUSN Doc 1986 SVO 48.47@ 12.58 Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 37,050 iTrader: 11 reviews	try a can of seafoam __________________

December 22nd, 2007, 06:23 PM	#3
Onemanzu ¡ʇsnq ɹo uʍop ǝpısdn Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Looking for free hand jobs in poland springs nebraska... silly gooses Posts: 12,551 Blog Entries: 1 iTrader: 0 reviews	seafoam the vacuum to see if there is an exhaust leak... this will help eliminate that factor/option __________________ My Foz

December 24th, 2007, 02:18 PM	#5
ByPopularDemand Hardcore Enthusiast 2000 V6 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 2,666 iTrader: 0 reviews	Well I had the exhaust looked at its not leaking, and I can hear thwe tick in the front of the engine somewhere. Also I put some fuel systemn cleaner in and engine oil treatment along with an oil change. its not quite as bad as it was friday __________________ 2000 V6 vert Mac LT headers, Mac O/R H-pipe, Mac CAI, ASP 25% underdrive pulley(r.i.p), SCT tune, 8.8 rear and 4.10 gears.

December 26th, 2007, 11:51 AM	#6
ByPopularDemand Hardcore Enthusiast 2000 V6 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 2,666 iTrader: 0 reviews	Bump...also I seem to be running lean and rich at the same time according to the neew codes being thrown __________________ 2000 V6 vert Mac LT headers, Mac O/R H-pipe, Mac CAI, ASP 25% underdrive pulley(r.i.p), SCT tune, 8.8 rear and 4.10 gears.

December 27th, 2007, 08:04 PM	#11
ByPopularDemand Hardcore Enthusiast 2000 V6 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 2,666 iTrader: 0 reviews	Yah no internet at home so I gotta post at work...the codes i left in the car: p1181 and 1182 lack of sw...something i think...they meant system lean and system rich respectively __________________ 2000 V6 vert Mac LT headers, Mac O/R H-pipe, Mac CAI, ASP 25% underdrive pulley(r.i.p), SCT tune, 8.8 rear and 4.10 gears.

December 28th, 2007, 07:31 PM	#13
ByPopularDemand Hardcore Enthusiast 2000 V6 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 2,666 iTrader: 0 reviews	That tune has been there since I got the tuner...I ran some fuel system cleaner, and where do I put the seafoam in at __________________ 2000 V6 vert Mac LT headers, Mac O/R H-pipe, Mac CAI, ASP 25% underdrive pulley(r.i.p), SCT tune, 8.8 rear and 4.10 gears.

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