[DAVID GAGNARD]

I chased down a "ticking" noise on my engine for some time and never found it, then one day when a buddy stopped by I cranked up the motor and he listened to it and after checking a number of things he found the source........... It was a pinhole in one of the header pipe welds right where it meets the flange.......it was on the back side and very hard to see, but when you start the motor it definetly "ticks", sounds just like a bad lifter, after a good warm up, the metal expands enough to practically seal the pinhole and sound all but goes away.........just something else to check...........

David