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Frankielozano214 Senior Enthusiast

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No problem I know when that happened On my truck this forum sure did help me with the situation. I thought my truck was damaged goods lol ? but it’s running A1 now

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I'll keep y'all posted on how it goes. The lifters and head gasket are on backorder due to the GM strike but I think the strike was settled today. Hopefully I can get this fixed before more damage occurs.

CamGTP Senior Enthusiast

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If you go with an aftermarket camshaft that is designed to add more performance, you better make sure whoever tunes it knows their stuff.

 

These GEN 5 torque based computers are very complex and do not take lightly to bad calibrations.

Frankielozano214 Senior Enthusiast

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7 minutes ago, black-n-gold said:

going with stock profile cam that came in the kit

I went with the factory style cam non afm too didn’t wanna spend more money on stall and other things

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On 10/22/2019 at 3:27 PM, CamGTP said:

For the hell of it check all your exhaust manifold bolts. If one it backing off or broke off/missing it could be that.

 

Otherwise it's a lifter not pumping up right away, drive it until something happens.

While waiting for the back ordered parts from BTR due to the GM strike I took your advice and took a look at the bolts. F'ing 3 bolts are missing from the passenger side and exhaust is staining the heads on those ports with the missing bolts, so definitely leaking there. The bolts are broke off inside the head so I may have to pull the heads anyway. Thanks for the advice.

Now I'm not sure the tick noise is from the exhaust leak or the lifters or both.

I'm going to attempt to remove the fender well to access the broken bolts, then see if the noise stops.

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7 minutes ago, black-n-gold said:

While waiting for the back ordered parts from BTR due to the GM strike I took your advice and took a look at the bolts. F'ing 3 bolts are missing from the passenger side and exhaust is staining the heads on those ports with the missing bolts, so definitely leaking there. The bolts are broke off inside the head so I may have to pull the heads anyway. Thanks for the advice.

Now I'm not sure the tick noise is from the exhaust leak or the lifters or both.

I'm going to attempt to remove the fender well to access the broken bolts, then see if the noise stops.

Damn that sounds like you have a project on your hands

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4 hours ago, Frankielozano214 said:

Damn that sounds like you have a project on your hands

It wasn't too bad. I was able to remove the tire and inner fender well and had all the room I needed. I removed the remaining bolts that held the manifold on, the spark plugs and pried the manifold down enough to center punch and drill out the center of the broken bolts and used an easy out to remove the bolts from the head. Bolted everything back up with new bolts, started it up and no more noise. about 3.5 hours of work...

What fooled me was the noise only happened when the engine was cold and it went away after 15 seconds. You would think the noise would be there as long as the engine was running and got louder with acceleration. It sounded like lifters to me, lol

 

Now lets see if BTR will give me a refund for the parts I ordered

 

By the way, If you ever want to change the spark plugs I recommend doing it from the fender well, way easier that way at least for the gen v trucks.

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