You may have a leak at the exhaust manifold gasket. I had a similiar
noise on an older american car and it sounded like a tappet noise.
You might want to use a long screwdriver and hold it to your ear while
the engine runs to confirm the noise is under the valve cover.
Alan Schultz
67 BJ8
James Shope wrote:
>as tom and ray will say, it is now time to "stump the chump". a few weeks
>ago, i adjusted the valves on a bj8. no click and no clack. a new
>distributor cap and wires were added last week. the owner tells there is a
>tick in the engine again. today i adjusteds the valves at least three times
>and could not get rid of the tick, which sounded just like a spark knock.
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