I just started to notice a medium sound level ticking near the distributor and I cannot figure out what it is. Can the oil pressure sending unit or maybe the fuel pressure regulator make a ticking sound? I can hear it from inside the car and the ticking will speed up as the engine RPM's increase? I can hear is loudest back by the distributor. I have never heard this noise before and it's buddin' the heck outta me. Any ideas?
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I don't think it's a regular valve train noise or an injector, what else could it be?

 

exhaust?

 

Are you certain you are not hearing fuel injectors? Mine click away regularly, loud enough to hear inside the vehicle at an idle if you listen carefully.

 

Best thing to do is grab a chunk of hose and poke around the back of the motor with one end and listen with the other. Pretty effective way of locating noises.

 

I highly doubt it's the fuel injectors, because I heard them before and this is a totally different noise. It's kind of a whine/ticking noise. It sorta sounds like the noise your speedo cable makes when it needs lubed, but this noise is coming from the rear of the engine. I know it's not the speedo because it still makes noise at stop and will increase when the engine RPM climbs. So strange.

 

My Car make the same noise it started then went away ??? now its back funny thing huh and it right in the back where the dis .

 

Yeah. A buddy of mine who is a GM service tech said it would be the rotor hitting against the cap? Any ideas?

 

I dunno about the whining deal, but first thing that comes to mind is what vic suggested....go over your header bolts, and your collectors....even one bolt backed out a little can make a ticking noise. I know, I thought I had a lifter going bad but I went through my exhaust bolts first and whaddya know, tightened a few up and the tick was gone. K.I.S.S.