Lifter tick or no?

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I'm sorry but that sounds more like a knock to me .. Like a Rod bearing. BUT WHAT DOES THE MECHANIC that did the Lifter replacement say about it.
 

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Sounds like hemi tick to me, why did you have them all replaced in the first place? Only happens at warm idle, now that is a bit weird. If you bring up rpm can you still hear it?
 

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Sounds like classic hemi tick little on the louder side could be the recording tho How many miles have you put on the new cam/lifters? It takes a while for new lifters to break in have had new lifters sound terrible until i put some good hard miles on them.
 
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Sounds like hemi tick to me, why did you have them all replaced in the first place? Only happens at warm idle, now that is a bit weird. If you bring up rpm can you still hear it?
I don’t hear it when I rise the rpm, and cause I had a lifter failure, and it tore up the camshaft. So I told them replace all lifters along with camshaft. I look at it if one fails others will too.
 
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Sounds like classic hemi tick little on the louder side could be the recording tho How many miles have you put on the new cam/lifters? It takes a while for new lifters to break in have had new lifters sound terrible until i put some good hard miles on them.
I just got it back, only drove 300 miles, on it at the moment
 
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I'm sorry but that sounds more like a knock to me .. Like a Rod bearing. BUT WHAT DOES THE MECHANIC that did the Lifter replacement say about it.
I haven’t brought it to their attention yet, I’m dropping it off Monday cause I have an oil leak they have to take care of.
 

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I don’t hear it when I rise the rpm, and cause I had a lifter failure, and it tore up the camshaft. So I told them replace all lifters along with camshaft. I look at it if one fails others will too.
Read the lubrication strategies, note the poll results. I can't even tell you how man lifter/cam jobs on the board that still has the tick, obviously we all feel your pain, sucks balls. If you can get rid of that tick with just an oil change = good news? If it doesnt kill the tick, it will will put more protection on that cam super high moly, esters and pao base oils plus high zddp, but the fact is it kills most hemi ticks.
 

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Have you used a stethoscope to pinpoint the location?
Does it sound louder on the top or bottom?
Any driving issues?
Is the oil level correct?
 
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Have you used a stethoscope to pinpoint the location?
Does it sound louder on the top or bottom?
Any driving issues?
Is the oil level correct?
It sounds louder on the bottom, and no it drives prefect, crazy thing is it only happens when its really hot temp, cold start it’s fine even at operating temp no noise only when I drive for about 30 mins
 

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It sounds louder on the bottom, and no it drives prefect, crazy thing is it only happens when its really hot temp, cold start it’s fine even at operating temp no noise only when I drive for about 30 mins

Well not to cause an undue panic but what you're describing sounds like it could be possibly the beginning of a rod knock. Rod knock would be louder when the oil is hot and thinner and would be quiet when the oil is cold and thicker. Perhaps some metal from the cam got into the crank bearings and tore things up. I'd definately have a mechanic give a professional opinion but if that's the case you could either sell it before it's an issue or drive it until it needs a new engine
 
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Well not to cause an undue panic but what you're describing sounds like it could be possibly the beginning of a rod knock. Rod knock would be louder when the oil is hot and thinner and would be quiet when the oil is cold and thicker. Perhaps some metal from the cam got into the crank bearings and tore things up. I'd definately have a mechanic give a professional opinion but if that's the case you could either sell it before it's an issue or drive it until it needs a new engine
Dam, well all the work at the moment from the lifter and camshaft repair is under warranty, I wonder if it would still be under warranty if the rod is messed up if the metal from the old camshaft didn’t get flushed/removed and it goes away as well when I reve the engine
 
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Well not to cause an undue panic but what you're describing sounds like it could be possibly the beginning of a rod knock. Rod knock would be louder when the oil is hot and thinner and would be quiet when the oil is cold and thicker. Perhaps some metal from the cam got into the crank bearings and tore things up. I'd definately have a mechanic give a professional opinion but if that's the case you could either sell it before it's an issue or drive it until it needs a new engine
Also I just drove it like 10 mins and oil temp was 170 and there was no sound only when I believe it’s almost 200
 

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Are you down on power or low oil psi? Could be maybe the other rods somehow out of whack, common right after cam jobs, pushrods.
 
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Read the lubrication strategies, note the poll results. I can't even tell you how man lifter/cam jobs on the board that still has the tick, obviously we all feel your pain, sucks balls. If you can get rid of that tick with just an oil change = good news? If it doesnt kill the tick, it will will put more protection on that cam super high moly, esters and pao base oils plus high zddp, but the fact is it kills most hemi ticks.
 

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Read the lubrication strategies, note the poll results. I can't even tell you how man lifter/cam jobs on the board that still has the tick, obviously we all feel your pain, sucks balls. If you can get rid of that tick with just an oil change = good news? If it doesnt kill the tick, it will will put more protection on that cam super high moly, esters and pao base oils plus high zddp, but the fact is it kills most hemi ticks.
I just did a oil change idk if oil suppose too look like that it’s only got 400 miles on it but it looks like the forbidden chocolate mixed with coolant
 

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Something bad wrong, sorry to hear that.
 

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Well, that's a no win isn't it. I hope you saved that old oil. If I saw that on the dipstick I think I 'd have called them and said send a tow truck because there is coolant in the oil and the motor is knocking and they need to fix whatever they didn't do right.
I hate letting others work on my stuff for exactly that reason. If these are the results, can you trust them?
 

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Maybe they didnt seal the heads correctly, probably a torque error, and you got coolant in the oil and that has made this thing tick, clearly it is the shop who needs to fix this. As long as they fix it, all is good.
 

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Yep thats bad take it back to whoever did it Common error is both headgaskets are not the same there is a left and a right they maybe they re used head bolts when your not suppose to.
 
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