ZeusDiosdelTrueno

Hey Bro,

sorry to hear about that noise your trucks makin. First, before all, don't do anything hasty. Take your time, talk to several people, and don't do ANY major repairs until you dont have a choice. You gotta diagnose the noise. You need to be sure where its comin from, the "hit and miss" replacing parts to see if the problems goes away bit is TOO costly.

How does your truck run? Does the noise sound at start up, after warm up,under load, when you punch it, etc? Is it soft tick tick, or loud aggressive knock? Could be the cam phasers, the timing chains, the injectors, a cracked manifold or shot manifold tailpipe doughnut...

How about you post a video recording of your engine on start-up, and when hot, and move the camera close to where you hear the noise most? Maybe we can help diagnose, the shops are all "hit and miss" and yes, one of their favorite songs is "you engine is shot" or "it has severe internal engine damage" bla bla bla..

Here on the forum bro, we will fix that truck!

Later, Zeus

maxpat82

exhaust manifold leak

Jus10lane

I have a 97 4.2L and mine also ticks and it is loudest from the wheelwel area. It ticks the hole time from start up. It's louder some days than others.????

F150_Life

The ticking noise has always been very faint for mine up until recenty.. starting to hear the click through slight acceleration when I'm going through a neighborhood or basically below 30 mph. Anyone have a link that can help me distinguish if it is in fact my cam phaser? there was a video link at the beginning of this thread however it no longer works. (that was back in 09 I realize)

F150Torqued

KingRanchF150?????
"04-06 were made with recycled metal...." ...."and THAT explains the 5.4L tick!!!" Where the F*!@#$ did you hear THAT? You're looking for love in all the wrong places!!!1

Pmoon

Try this test, put the truck in drive, with your foot on the brake give it enough gas to raise the rpms by about 500 then let off the gas. If it sounds like it's running with no oil in it you need a cam phaser job done on it.

bbrad1775

My 05 5.4L did exactly this. I replaced the VCT solenoids and it cured it. I still have a little bit of ticking which I chauck up to cam phasers but it is hardly noticeable. Bumping up to 5W30 also helped quiet it some or maybe just fresh oil helped. All in all I dont mind the tick and if it never gets any louder or cause problems, I'm fine with it being there. For $100 and not having to tear into the engine I am pretty happy. Hope this helps someone. BTW vice grips really help to get those seals out!

Tbone3366

Premium will not cause pinging or knocking, octane rating is the resistance to knock compared to cylnder pressure, the only reason this engine would knock is from advancing ignition timing too much no if ands or buts

tlrtucker

Pretty sure he figured something out by now...

Tbone3366

I had regular sprockets placed into the 3v head for a 2010 and put the heads onto a 99 and someone tuned for me but some people dont understand octane