I did a search and didn't really come up with an answer to my problem. Whenever I start my car no matter if it's warm or cold, there is a ticking noise coming from my engine. I can't tell exactly where at but when my car is in park and is running it is ticking. I have no idea what it could be. Anybody have any suggestions of what it is? What I can do to fix it?

Engine: 2.2L I4 OHV



Valve tap, its normal unfortunetly.



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just tighten to 22ft.lbs. and youl be set. thats what imma do soon

yah mine does that to I was worried it was a bad valve glad its normal .

Wojo wrote:just tighten to 22ft.lbs. and youl be set. thats what imma do soon

I think i'll just take it to a mechanic or have my bro in law look at it. He's good with cars.

But how would I go about tightening? And what?

dude if you could just hear the dozens of ticking clapping cracking clicking sounds my car has you wouldn't be complaining.

Most of the 2.2 and 2200's do this; once you get so many kilo's or miles, its normal,lol.





98 j-body sedan

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I think i'll just take it to a mechanic or have my bro in law look at it. He's good with cars.

well. all you need is a case of beer (or in my case a 12 pack of my favorite soda) a new valve cover gasket, and understanding in cars, a torque wrench (you should be able to rent one somewhere) and you tighten the rocker arm nuts to 22 ft.lbs. thatl fix it. have fun

It's nothing to worry about. I talked to my old shop foreman at the GM dealer and he said all 2200 engines do it. No big deal

well i fixed mine today. sounds better. doesnt sound like a complete piece of crap like we all know 2.2's are. nice Felpro gasket only costed me 7 dollars to. great day

what you can do to remedy this in the summer time, is run a higher grade oil in your engine, my mom's 99 cav 2200 started doing that, so the last oil change i did i put in 10w30, and no more tapping

yeah. ill do that when summer time comes to
but weel see. i have another 3,000 miles till my next oil change

Anyone know if its good to use the lucas oil stabalizer when ya get an oil change; i heard that carp is good.





98 j-body sedan

ya i reccomend that stuff, we use it in our dirt race car, and allot of @!#$ has gone better in it such as oil pressure at the end of a race stays up, and the oil is still rather clean looking after three races (our oil chang intervals)

Cool thanks, anyone use it in there j-body when they get an oil change?





98 j-body sedan