Hey, its also very nice NOT to have tick. Especially, when you pull through the bank drive-thru window and not have to turn to rig offto avoid having people stare at you and call your Rover a POS.

 

Ditto that (or your boss as he gets into his new $50k Super Duty).

 

I wish I had found this forum earlier. I had my 2003 Series II converted at 75000kms, by 87000kms (5 months) the ticking started. I now cannot run the car on gas and only a high octane fuel. Numerous oils have been tried to no avail. Upon driving around this year I noticed 4 others with that ticking noise and all on gas. Have been quoted $7k to pull it apart and fix.

Any suggestions to get rid of it?

 

You will find several solutions on this forum.

A. Oil pump cracked, and you test for oil pressure (idle and 2500 rpm, cold and hot), if not very close to spec oil pump is suspect.

B. SAI (secondary air injection) - malfunction of SAI componets have been found to cause it.

C. The dreaded slipped cylinder liner, from an gross overheat episode.

You can search for "tick" and "solved", etc. and find a number of posts. ould want to search all of these, and do plenty of analysis, before opening wallet. You can purchase a mechanic's stethoscpe at auto parts store to listen to various spots and narrow location down.

 

Thanks Savannah, will do.

 

Buzz -you forgot one!



A. Oil pump cracked, and you test for oil pressure (idle and 2500 rpm, cold and hot), if not very close to spec oil pump is suspect.

B. SAI (secondary air injection) - malfunction of SAI componets have been found to cause it.

C. The dreaded slipped cylinder liner, from an gross overheat or just general crapness of the 2003/2004 engines

D. Cracked / Broken flex plate from who knows what.

 

Good catch.

 

Well I just pulled my pan down to take a look at the flex plate and all looks good. I can look up and see the pistons but not sure what everyone is talking about slipped liner? It does not really look like there is a liner I must just be missing it. Any way to quickly inspect the oil pump while I have the pan off? everything in the engine looks mint it only has 65k on it and the noise is only at idle when warm and as soon as you bring up RPM its nice and quite.

Mark

 

i believe to visually inspect the oil pump you need to remove the front timing cover.

 

Spoke with Disco Mike he is a very nice helpful guy. While I have the pan off I'm pulling the front cover now to check it. I'll keep everyone posted.