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Old 11-10-2017, 05:56 PM
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So this noise just started today https://youtu.be/w9xRxxlXo1M

I don't know if it's my valves my rockers or something in the block itself

don't know if it helps but I have just reached 93,711 miles and I have a tiny oil leak on the oil pressue unit
Old 11-10-2017, 06:13 PM
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Your car isn't running so it's not anything inside the block. Sounds like something is cooling off and ticking outside the engine.
Old 11-10-2017, 08:16 PM
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Sure sounds like the creaking you hear when you turn off a warm engine and it starts to cool. Thermal expansion and contraction. Ie, normal.
Old 11-10-2017, 11:38 PM
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Cooling that fast I mean yeah it has been getting colder but for real, I thought my motor was about to lose a lifter I was so woried

I'm glad it's nothing major

I'm sorry I over think things sometimes
Old 11-11-2017, 12:37 AM
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Sounds like headers cooling off.
Old 11-11-2017, 12:44 PM
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I' glad it' nothing bad but I'm a little jumpy when I hear a new strange noise
Old 11-11-2017, 06:00 PM
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It's not a strange noise if you know what it is. It's definitely your headers contracting.
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Well anyways thanks for telling me what it was.




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