Gentlefolk, I have a friend that has a Focus that she recently bought and after the first oil change, it started to tick and it has been doing this ever since. (It may have ticked before the oil change, but I don't know.) I thought that I had it isolated to the front cover, so I was thinking it was the timing chain, then one day I got a 911 call. Went down there and eventually found that the #3 spark plug had came out. I was hoping that reinstalling it would solve the ticking, but it didn't. So that led me back to the timing chain. I decided that before I dig into the chain, I would get some educated opinions, so I came here.
140.000 miles. Kinda riced out with a K&N and low budget lowering and interior and engine compartment pieces painted --PINK--!
I guess my first thing is to take a good look at the spark plug threads to be sure we don't have an issue there, but what next. I asked a very trusted member his opinion and he said that timing chain problems happen but they are rare and only at start-up. This one ticks all the time.
Her BF was supposed to change the plugs on it, so maybe one of the other plugs was loose as well. I need to ask that question.
Anything else that we should look at? If it was a chain that was really bad, would it make noise all the time, but be worse on a cold start-up?
We could really use some direction here. Most of what I work on has either gears or belts, so I'm a bit out of my element.
140.000 miles. Kinda riced out with a K&N and low budget lowering and interior and engine compartment pieces painted --PINK--!
I guess my first thing is to take a good look at the spark plug threads to be sure we don't have an issue there, but what next. I asked a very trusted member his opinion and he said that timing chain problems happen but they are rare and only at start-up. This one ticks all the time.
Her BF was supposed to change the plugs on it, so maybe one of the other plugs was loose as well. I need to ask that question.
Anything else that we should look at? If it was a chain that was really bad, would it make noise all the time, but be worse on a cold start-up?
We could really use some direction here. Most of what I work on has either gears or belts, so I'm a bit out of my element.