Can anyone identify this sound

[eli470]

It's an 08 5.3. Has to be idling to hear it and doesn't seem to increase with rpms

Edited February 27, 2023 by eli470

[CamGTP]

Hard to tell with such a short video and the camera isn't in the engine bay.

 

I've heard lifter tick kinda sound like that.

[eli470]

3 hours ago, CamGTP said:

Hard to tell with such a short video and the camera isn't in the engine bay.

 

I've heard lifter tick kinda sound like that.

It wouldn't let me upload a longer video. I think it's actually coming from the oil filter area best I can tell

[BarryKH]

I would look for something loose in a muffler or catalytic converter, or a loose clamp or bad seal in the exhaust system. The sound is not consistent enough, to me, to be a lifter tick. My grandson had a leak in his exhaust that sounded like a tick, but a clamp had worked loose and the gasket between the pipes was leaking. Just my thoughts from the experiences I've had. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. But I have learned in my 74 years to do just what you're doing, ask others for advice from their experiences. Experience is worth more that all the books.

[eli470]

Would the starter make noises like this? Exhaust doesn't seem to be the issue best I can tell