- Location
- Austin, Texas
Sounds like the cam is flattening, did you check it? Also did you check the lifter pre-load?
No comment on this post, but I just want to post the cautionary tale that I only have a single daily driver XJ and had a similar tick, and went with a Jasper rebuilt motor. Tick is gone, but I have 25% less gas mileage and lower power as a result. I should have spent the time if I could have to find the smaller problem rather than bailing on the engine. Feel a lot of guilt over giving up a well maintainted motor that I was the original owner of.