Ok, after today on my way home, I noticed a ticking sound coming from my engine bay. When I got home, I opened my hood while the car was still running. It sounds like the distributor or spark plug wires are giving off bad electrical pulses? Like sort of a static ticking sound. Kinda noticable even when the hood is closed. What happened? Any help would be appreciated. I've never ran into this problem before.

my car has just slightly ticked since i bought it 2 yrs ago, it wasn't LOUD but i figured it was the distributor since I stuck my head close to the engine. I didn't hear it on the road only idling in my drive way. So i guess just take the distributor off and make sure the contacts are clean and besides that idk what else i can tell you...I'm sure others here will be more helpful when they see this topic.

This post has been edited by 6gcSTVT: Sep 9, 2006 - 12:28 AM

lifter tick.

it could be a ticky injector, lifter tick as mentioned above, if the engine is running poorly it could be a plug wire arcing to ground.

So I need new injectors?

no, i said it could be a noisy injector.

use a screw driver to your ear to listen to specific parts of the engine to see where the noise is coming from.

Nevermind. I found the problem. One of my spark plug wires popped off from the distributor.

im glad to hear it was something so simple and easy to fix. i had a moron moment tonight as well, i knocked the vac line to my map sensor off while wiping some dirt off. talk about confusing symptoms!