You need to move to Indiana..... I think I can get John to chip in....lol

 

I have been talking to Josh about that for about 6+ months, Doc

Although, I could see him up your way, he wants some land and a big garage, imagine that LOL

 

Who doesn't!?!

 

I accept donations

All I really gotta do is fix a few things with the house and sell it.

Yes! lol. Biiiigggg garage lol.








Well, still have the tick.

So I'm open to suggestions. Rough idle, loud single tick... tick... tick. Tick progresses with RPM.

I bought motor medic, and I'm going to run it through tonight when I'm off. After, if it's still there, I'm going to remove the serpentine belt to see if it's one of the accessories. I really don't know what else to check.

 

I am selling our E class to help build a custom home with an 8-10 car garage and roof top deck for partying, but land is not an option inside the 465 belt, hell, less than a acre here is $50k-$100k depending on the area. So yes, I want a large garage as well, complete with 14 foot ceilings in an area for the lift

 

Rough idle sounds like a vacuum leak after the MAF. Do you have a way to do a boost leak test? I would venture to guess that there is poor sealing or bad intake manifold gasket.
The tick could be an injector (already a maybe), valvetrain (probably not) and exhaust leak. Don't forget to check the EGR air valves, if loose or not sealing, you will get a terrible exhaust leak and valve tick. A bad enough exhaust leak will give false readings to the o2's and cause a rough idle as well (rich fuel mixture). What do the o2's say at idle?

 

I think you might be on to something with the EGR valve. I'm going to just replace it completely and check it all out.

 

Hi Josh well done on the install sorry to hear its biting you in the ar$e............. couple of things spring to mind......as already said possible inlet gasket not sealing near no.8 cylinder, you could try spraying aerosol brake cleaner or easy start around the area and see if the revs pick up......I know this sounds stupid and you've probably checked it but a loose spark plug would give a ticking/clacking sound!!..... swapping the injector to an adjacent cylinder would rule that out if its still lumpy on the same cylinder.........you'll sort it.......... remember if this sort of thing were easy everyone would be doing it ! keep us posted Simon

 

I would explain everything I've tried and done, but it would be easier to just explain how long I've spent...

Every day for the last 8 days I've spent 4-7 hours swapping things, replacing, testing...

Rough idle, runs rich, and annoying loud tick. It has just as much power as mine, I ran it to 140 last night and it got there just as quick as mine.

 

Plug wire arching to ground will make a snap/tic sound. Try spraying a mist of water around the plugs in the dark.

 

Since they're the only thing I haven't replaced I think it's time. And I'll try that tonight.

 

Well, after forever of trying to get that tick under control and dealing with it running rich on both banks, it's back, he's had it, I've totally just been avoiding the forum lately.

When I sent it, it had 300-500 miles on it with only two stored codes, none thrown. When he got it, it threw CEL for 4 codes. After re-adjusting the air box , there's only 1, and it's a weird one. EGR, but we think we got it sorted. What's weird about it is that the EGR is his old unit. He tried new gaskets but found the MAP was slightly unplugged and told me it hadn't come on since, so maybe. I guess I'll found out when I get a text lol.

 

Josh, that is part of buying used parts out of a junk yard my friend. You don't always get a perfect engine. That is not something you did. But it is something that needs fixed. Your job was to do the swap, and make it run. Good job. Get your butt out here and we will try a V-8 with some more pulleys to it....lol

 

That is exactly the mentality I had to get at. I was there to make it go, and it for sure as **** goes! Me being the nice guy I am though, I was really trying to help and I just didn't have the time I needed to get that involved with it.

Unfortunately... again... Indiana's out of the question. Wife went crazier than a rat in a tin **** house. We'll just plan for me taking a nice long vacation that direction lol. I need one at this point.

 

Sorry about not texting you yet Josh lol. The reason is I am not sure if it is fixed. So as of last night no code was thrown but DAS showed the EGR test hadn't completed yet. Today I drove it to work and then to lunch. On the way to lunch the check engine light came back on, rich both banks, when I went to exit out of the codes page I accidentally hit clear, so all the tests reset and now I don't know what threw the codes . On the way home I got rich both banks pending, tried to see what threw it in DAS but can't figure out how to see that. My DAS laptop has a crap battery so I can only use it for about 10 minutes before it shuts down. New battery should be here Wednesday so I will be able to play around with it some more then.

 

It takes 10 minutes just for my DAS to turn on lol.

 

OK, which is it ?
Above, you say :
In another of ur posts I read yesterday, she said adios and left the pondo. You had found a new tatt'd honey.

 

Lol, yeah that's why I put mine into standby mode, I'm too impatient haha

 

What do you mean which is it? lol

She lost it, left, and I have a new tatt'd honey lol.

Can't you just leave it plugged in when you're working on the car? lol

 

I live on the 4th floor, I can drop an extension cord down but it can only reach to 4 parking spots so if those are taken I'm out of luck. Plus I always park as far away from everyone as possible, you wouldn't believe how some of those fools park lol.