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1993 Ford Crown Vic LX engine clicking
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homerm06
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Dec 1, 2010, 5:15 PM
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1993 Ford Crown Vic LX engine clicking
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First, I got a 1993 Ford Crown Victoria LX v8 4.6L SFI.
Next here's what happened and where I am.
I got the Crown Vic from an uncle who gave me the car. He bought it used in Feb '06 and I got it June '07. Never once did he change the oil in it. When I got it, it did a nasty clicking sound so I had the oil changed. The oil looked like Karo syrup or like Lucas Oil Stabilizer and there was less than 2 quarts. in the engine. Ok, I thought that was it, but it still clicked. Had a mech look at it and said it was the lifters. Eh.
I spent the next months trying to get it to be quiet. I tried 10w30 @ first (smoked a bunch from tail pipe), 10w40 (smoked a bit from tail pipe) & 20w50 (a puff of smoke here and there from tail pipe) in each oil change between December '07 - Sept '08. Then I tried CD2 for a month afterward. Then the fun began, there was an oil leak between trans and engine (which I just got fixed last week, funny huh) and more smoke poured out the tail pipe. (Engine cleaners do the job, but not always to your liking.)
I learned that lesson.
Then I just ended up adding 4 quarts of 20w50 in the hot months with a quart of Lucas and in the cold months I added 4 quarts of 10w40 with a quart of Lucas. Did that until December '09. Now I do 5 quarts of either respectively.
So why am I here? WHAT IN THE WORLD CAN I DO TO FIX THE TICKING SOUND!!!!!
Some mechs say, "Change the oil, it'll clear out" But how long does it take, 3-1/2 years of changing the oil isn't doing it! "Just change the lifters." Yeah! 16 lifters at 9 bucks each + labor? HA! "Just use Engine Restore, it's in a silver bottle" Um, isn't that like Lucas or the other million and one oil products out there?
Help Please?
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way2old
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Dec 1, 2010, 5:21 PM
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Re: 1993 Ford Crown Vic LX engine clicking
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By any chance it the noise seeming to come from the passenger side? I have had PCV valves rattle and sound like internal engine noises. Just a thought.
Being way2old is why I need help from younger minds
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