Moosewhisperer
Junior Member
- Joined
- Jun 20, 2022
- Posts
- 2
- Reaction score
- 2
- Location
- Saskatchewan
- Ram Year
- 2014
- Engine
- 5.7L Hemi MDS deleted, non Mds cam shaft, Hell cat oil pump, Hell cat lifters, DiabloSport I3 Tuner
So I’ve searched through a lot of threads and can’t seem to find any information on my particular issue. I have a ‘14 Ram sport crew with the 5.7L and 8spd and 187,000km. I did the cam,lifters and mds delete in it at around 160,000Km. At the time I could not get mopar oem parts so I went with a jobber cam and lifters. Around 15,000Km later the tick returned. I figured that my jobber parts came back to bite me in the butt. I ordered new “hell cat” lifters, the hell cat oil pump and the non mds cam out of 2500. Upon doing the swap again I couldn’t find any obvious failure of the jobber parts that would cause this tick to return. I installed the all new Mopar Oem parts and hoped for the best. So now I still have the tick however it doesn’t tick at all on a dead cold start up. It runs absolutely smooth and quiet as butter until around 5-7 mins as engine warms up and comes to temp the ticking comes back. First thing I did was check all exhaust manifold bolts and found them to be good. Then I switched to the redline oil with the lube guard biotech additive. I now have around 3,000km on the oil and additive change and their has been no change, I actually think it’s getting worse. The Tick is quite loud coming from passenger side towards rear of engine and also a slight tick on drivers side rear engine. It definitely sounds like valve train noise but I’m at a loss with this thing it has nearly drove me nuts. Under the hood it runs smooth and quiet, under the fender wells it sounds like a sewing machine on a sheet of tin. Tick increases and decreases with the throttle and like I said earlier gets worse as engine comes up to temp. If anyone has any insight on this I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!