Jim, I was just wondering: I can't tell from your picture where the chain tensioner clamp is. Is there a part number for that?

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JimF,

Thanks for the info. On your website, you mention that the ticking came back even after replacing the oil guides, but autoRX finally cured the ticking noise once and for all? Did the ticking go away during the cleaning phase, or the rinsing phase?

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Did you really read the four (4) paragraphs at the bottom of MENU#19 in BLUE??

To summarize; I used a 'engine flush' as stated and then later used ARX to clean/remove any sludge/teflon, etc.

I did use products like Slick 50, Prolong, etc thinking that it would lower friction; well it's all BS and it left some partially plugged oil passages/lifters as its byproducts.

When the ARX was started the tick-tick was intermittant. It could have been, as many say, a byproduct of loosening/removing sludge. But as I remember, the car was 99% tick free during the cleaning phase of ARX.

Now in the maintenence phase, I've not heard a lifter tick in apx 3 years.

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Sorry for hi-jacking the thread for a similar issue. My M113 has a slight mechanical "noise" at the left forward part of the engine block. After having this for a month I got a pretty loud tick-tick at startup, almost as when oil pressure is low for a couple of seconds, but this remained for a good minute or two. Then disappeared and didn´t come back on repeated startups until the engine has been stopped overnight.

So I made an oil and filter change, Mobil 1 0-40 as usual. After this I can still hear the tick-tick but much less although for the same good minute.

The slight mechanical noise is the same as before oil change.

What can cause this, it sounds like a single valve tick, but I am not sure. Can anything related to the cam chain and tensioner make a tick and also this lower noise?

Engine runs smooth and no extra exhaust smoke from what I can see.

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Sure there is . . . but don't happen to know it. When you get near it, you can read the part number on it.

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