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      11-09-2014, 03:04 AM   #2548
KiwiRD
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It's the lifters. The injectors are noisy for sure - but the noise they make is constant and pretty faint. Nothing like the metalic clicking / ticking you can hear on the links in this thread. The sound is there mostly because on start up there isn't sufficient oil pressure in the head to "pump" up the lifters. When the lifters are receiving full oil pressure the ticking dissipates.
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