Emerica1232
Junior Member
hello all, new to forum, hope i’m posting this correctly! recently purchased a 2009 Dodge Ram 1500 4X4 5.7 156k miles
Truck had misfire originally, and was sent out for cam/lifters to be replaced. truck seemed okay at first but threw a CEL for p1414 after for MSD solenoid fault cylinder 4. Truck started running horribly, but would clear up after i cleared CEL. i was able to manually bypass MDS each time i put truck in drive and it is fine if i do that(only done it a couple times, i’ve only had truck for a few weeks, only put about 150 miles on it since purchasing). One day when starting truck it started ticking pretty badly, from driver side of motor. I’ve pulled valve cover off of driver said, just wondering what i should look for at this point with valve cover off. Is it safe to start truck with valve cover off so i can watch valve train? Praying it’s not lifter issue again. The rocker arm assembly has quite a bit of side to side play on intake rocker shaft closest to front of engine driver side(where ticking seemed to be coming from). any advice on diagnosing this further would be greatly appreciated! i’ll also attach a video below of play in rocker assembly when i get the chance
Truck had misfire originally, and was sent out for cam/lifters to be replaced. truck seemed okay at first but threw a CEL for p1414 after for MSD solenoid fault cylinder 4. Truck started running horribly, but would clear up after i cleared CEL. i was able to manually bypass MDS each time i put truck in drive and it is fine if i do that(only done it a couple times, i’ve only had truck for a few weeks, only put about 150 miles on it since purchasing). One day when starting truck it started ticking pretty badly, from driver side of motor. I’ve pulled valve cover off of driver said, just wondering what i should look for at this point with valve cover off. Is it safe to start truck with valve cover off so i can watch valve train? Praying it’s not lifter issue again. The rocker arm assembly has quite a bit of side to side play on intake rocker shaft closest to front of engine driver side(where ticking seemed to be coming from). any advice on diagnosing this further would be greatly appreciated! i’ll also attach a video below of play in rocker assembly when i get the chance