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Thank you for your input Yavion and Eric. I didn’t think there was an adjustment but wasn’t sure on it. After thinking about it I’m starting to wonder if the ticking was caused by the fact that the coolant mixed with the oil to the point it was as thin as water. And the ticking never started until the coolant leak did. I got down to the lower intake manifold gasket finally this afternoon after a few fun but long days of working. Never gonna use or let anyone use that liquid gasket stuff ever again. Our old mechanic used it in the car to try to get us by and there is dried up clumps of it in the coolant I drained out, in the hoses and clogging up the ports on the cylinder heads and manifold. After seeing that today we are gonna be taking it down to the block and doing the head gasket as well because we could see they were wrecked too and to get the “gasket repair” stuff out of it and not into the low end of the engine. The heads themselves looked horrible too. There was puddles of coolant in them barely a sign of oil. So much cleaning up and repairing of all the messes and broken stuff we are finding that the hack that used to work on it left behind. Thank you again for the input and help.
Thank you for your input Yavion and Eric. I didn’t think there was an adjustment but wasn’t sure on it. After thinking about it I’m starting to wonder if the ticking was caused by the fact that the coolant mixed with the oil to the point it was as thin as water. And the ticking never started until the coolant leak did. I got down to the lower intake manifold gasket finally this afternoon after a few fun but long days of working. Never gonna use or let anyone use that liquid gasket stuff ever again. Our old mechanic used it in the car to try to get us by and there is dried up clumps of it in the coolant I drained out, in the hoses and clogging up the ports on the cylinder heads and manifold. After seeing that today we are gonna be taking it down to the block and doing the head gasket as well because we could see they were wrecked too and to get the “gasket repair” stuff out of it and not into the low end of the engine. The heads themselves looked horrible too. There was puddles of coolant in them barely a sign of oil. So much cleaning up and repairing of all the messes and broken stuff we are finding that the hack that used to work on it left behind. Thank you again for the input and help.