Hey gang. So I have a loud ticking sound that is now occurring after my oil change last week (pennzoil 10w40). I decided to troubleshoot and change the spark plugs and wires...
well I put the champion copper plugs in hand tight, and had to replace the wires as well because a couple of my old wires had the connector rip out.. it started misfiring! So after an hour of trying to figure out what plug is doing it or wire, I gave up because a huge thunderstorm was about to roll over me. . I decided to put the old sparkplugs back in, except for one realllllly crusty looking one, and the thing fired right up and I was able to drive home without issues. I did notice a sliiiight hiccup here and there at red lights. ..

could all those plugs be bad? Is it the gaps? Is it the type of plugs? I didn’t adjust the gaps at all except for the one I put back in with my old ones, I just adjusted it to look like my old ones. (Oh, and the ticking did not go away)

 

Ticking and misfire together usually points to a sticky lifter.

What brand oil filter did you use?

 

The wix filter

 

If you did not gap it correctly, a misfire is very likely. Champions should be gapped to .35. It's impossible to eyeball the gap. That would be the cause of the misfire. The ticking, could be a sticky lifter,where is the ticking coming from??

 

I’ll gap them today and try again. The ticking is coming from the front. Used a socket extension as a stethoscope and could def hear it more near the front. I think I had a lighter oil in it before. I don’t remember. Heard good things about rotella t6 from that salad write up on here

 

update: gapping the spark plugs fixed it. thanks for the input guys.

 

Good to hear. And I'm betting you gapped the plugs at .035", not .35"...........

 

Haha that is correct

 

He said misfire, not NO fire!

 

LOL. Yep. I was digging mattheww97.......