Lifter Tick on New Engine

[nonickatall]

But seriously. A ticking that only goes away, when the engine has reached operating temperature, does not sound like a ticking of the hydraulic lifters.

Maybe you should make a video of it and upload it to Youtube and post it here, so we can listen to it.

 

[rockola1971]

Could be lifter, piston slap, broken or missing exhaust manifolf bolt, leaking exhaust flange in the exhaust down pipe or even a loose torque converter bolt. First thing I would do is check on a cold engine that every exhaust manifold bolt is there and touch them to make sure they arent loose or broken with head and stub still in place.

 

[Jfarm]

All, thanks for the help. I know its been a little bit but I was finally able to take it in to my mechanic and wanted to update. It turned out to be a leaking exhaust manifold. He said that a bolt had come loose probably from the heating and cooling of the engine. He tightened it up and it now sounds perfect. Thanks to everyone for all the input, I thought for sure it was a lifter tick and would have never thought about an exhaust manifold leak.