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head tick repair options?
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<blockquote data-quote="cemille01" data-source="post: 10128737" data-attributes="member: 106388"><p>I payed 14,000 for the car,onlyhas 40,000 miles on it and about 10,000$ worth of modifications with receipts and all work was done by a good shop,i am going to diagnose the problem on Saturday to see if it is the head tick or not,from what the seller tells me it sounds like the tick,car runs and idles fine,no smoke and has oil pressure,he is running a motor craft oil filter and a synthetic blend oil 5w20 ,is the oil maybe part of the problem?I have read that synthetic oils make the valve train more noisy,a lot of guys on here has switched to 5w30 non synthetic blend and the tick got a lot quieter some even reported that it went away,I understand that its just a bandaid and won't fix it,but I will do so so I can drive the car and enjoy it until I can save up for the revised heads and labor cost ,is there any websites where I can look at the heads and prices so I know how much to save?has any of you changed to non synthetic blend and had success?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cemille01, post: 10128737, member: 106388"] I payed 14,000 for the car,onlyhas 40,000 miles on it and about 10,000$ worth of modifications with receipts and all work was done by a good shop,i am going to diagnose the problem on Saturday to see if it is the head tick or not,from what the seller tells me it sounds like the tick,car runs and idles fine,no smoke and has oil pressure,he is running a motor craft oil filter and a synthetic blend oil 5w20 ,is the oil maybe part of the problem?I have read that synthetic oils make the valve train more noisy,a lot of guys on here has switched to 5w30 non synthetic blend and the tick got a lot quieter some even reported that it went away,I understand that its just a bandaid and won't fix it,but I will do so so I can drive the car and enjoy it until I can save up for the revised heads and labor cost ,is there any websites where I can look at the heads and prices so I know how much to save?has any of you changed to non synthetic blend and had success? [/QUOTE]
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