My engine is making a Clicking sound or more of a tapping it sounds like the sound the fuel injectors make but 100 times louder it sound slike its comming from my passanger side head and when i listend i also herd a rattle comming from it any ideas what it could be and any cheap fixes i plan to have this engine 6 more months tops before i do the 3.4 swap its at 202000 miles right now and still going. I wana drive it til it dies lol

 

Do you mostly hear it at idle and warm? Sounds like a noisy lifter or too much valvetrain clearance. Mine makes the same noise once it warms up. Not much you can do with out ripping the intake off. I've been driving mine with the noise for a while, but i've got my 3.4 so I won't be pulling my intake off.

 

i hear it both when the engine is warm or cold

 

does it get louder w/ higher rpms? its most likely a knock somewhere in ur valvetrain.. lifter or rocker.. take off ur valve covers and see if ur rocker arms are hitting the top of the valve covers.. ive heard of many ppl w/ that happenning w/ nothing major happening to their motor..
if not, it most likely a lifter knock then.. FIX IT NOW if u want to keep that motor alive.. once it progreeses into someting louder, then ur engine is not worth fixing (thats my opponion anyways)..


-mike (loomdog)

 

Check also for an exhaust leak at the manifold, a loose manifold-to-y-pipe connection, and loose spark plugs.