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Old 12-24-2010, 01:40 AM
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tb making clicking noise

so i was messin around under the hood today and my tb was making a strange clickin noise i had never heard its fairly loud i i just cant fig out what it is. Im positive its coming from tb and its runnin fine just curious as to what it is so if ya'll got any ideas let me kno might try to get a video up
Old 12-24-2010, 02:01 AM
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Re: tb making clicking noise

so i finily found a thread about this and it said this was normal but i swear mine didnt use to do that lol
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you got the injector clicking?
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Re: tb making clicking noise

pressure regulator or you hearing the pump kick in and out I'd say
Old 12-24-2010, 11:33 PM
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Re: tb making clicking noise

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you got the injector clicking?
i guess? If i had to say i would say its coming from the driver side injector but not sure
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Re: tb making clicking noise

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pressure regulator or you hearing the pump kick in and out I'd say
Do you mean the fuel pump? I dont think thats it i could believe the regulator. So is this normal like the thread i found said?
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Both sets of my injectors clicked. So if thats it its really common. I would just check the injectors and make sure their making a nice even spray. no dripping.
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Re: tb making clicking noise

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Both sets of my injectors clicked. So if thats it its really common. I would just check the injectors and make sure their making a nice even spray. no dripping.
yea its the driver side injector clicking checked the spray pattern its got a few drips in the spray pattern on both injectors so i guess they need cleaned guess i need 2 run some sea foam
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Yeah i kinda figured it was that. drove me nuts first time mine started but threw better injectors in and lived with it.
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