Anybody have a engine tick warm or cold ?

[mark walk]

any body have a engine tick warm or cold mine comes and goes 22 mojave 1022 miles dealer told me they all do i dont believe them

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[Fundamental Jeepster]

2020 here. 11.5k miles. My engine runs quiet at start or operational temps.

 

[NachoRuby]

I had a tsb that fixed that. I'd think you'd already have it done though, since you just got yours. Post a recording, someone should be able to tell you if it's normal or not.

 

[CMac]

any body have a engine tick warm or cold mine comes and goes 22 mojave 1022 miles dealer told me they all do i dont believe them

No, they all do not.

What you are experiencing is a lazy, shitbox dealership that is either too stupid to fix a peanut butter sandwich....or is simply too lazy to try.

 

[Hootbro]

The Pentastar has a known occurrence of rocker needle bearing and/or lifter issues that cause a tick and eventually will wipe a cam lobe. Most will never have the issue but it happens enough to be a known problem that cannot be discounted.

Some are worse than others and is not a problem that goes away or works itself out.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

any body have a engine tick warm or cold mine comes and goes 22 mojave 1022 miles dealer told me they all do i dont believe them

There are 20 threads on engine "ticks"............. and I bet I'm not exaggerating. Dozens if not hundreds of posts including videos with audio of the sound.

Mine does NOT tick, my wife's Grand Cherokees with 3.6s have never had a tick.
It has a little more sound when cold, but nothing indicating a problem. Just can hear the engine more than at other times when it's cold. It usually gets totally quiet within a mile. I'd not call it a tick, just that when the 3.6 is cold it sounds more like my 4.0 which has a truck engine sound - a noisier valve train.
Some do - some just have a bit more noise, and some have a problem.
Depending on the tick it may be nothing - but may also be a problem.
Also depending on the oil in it, some will be louder than others.
It should be checked. May not be the end of the world - but should be checked to be sure.

 

[KWin]

Mine just started around 4000 miles. So it didn't tick when I first got it and it does now.

 

[kscoke]

At 2000 had camshaft/lifters and rockers replaced right-side of engine. Now at 5000 started ticking the same as before. Goes in tomorrow morning.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

At 2000 had camshaft/lifters and rockers replaced right-side of engine. Now at 5000 started ticking the same as before. Goes in tomorrow morning.

Build date of your truck? (on the door sticker if you don't already know, and there's a MDH area that is Month, Day, Hour of the build)

Did they replace the solenoids, and did they put the correct lifters(lash adjusters) in the correct holes? There are different ones for exhaust vs. intake, they aren't the same.

 

[texanjeeper]

It could be the gas, too....this Ethanol crap seems to make my Pentastar run more sluggish. I know it's not my imagination, and it seems to have only started doing that since they released the 10% stuff for the summer.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

It could be the gas, too....this Ethanol crap seems to make my Pentastar run more sluggish. I know it's not my imagination, and it seems to have only started doing that since they released the 10% stuff for the summer.

What do you mean "released the 10% stuff for summer"?
10% is available year-round, and is sold through pumps marked as ethanol blend. They don't put it in pumps for summer, nor is it sold without being marked as ethanol.

Ticks won't be fuel-related. It's not possible. You can have the ping of detonation caused by the engine not properly controlling the burn process - and low octane fuel can make things worse, but a tick is a mechanical sound, not a burn sound or a sonic wave.
Ticks are normally injector noises or valve train noises.

BTW - here we go on ethanol again, but I run 15% (U88) in my truck and it actually runs great)
The Pentastar redesign in 2015 for the 2016 model year was originally to prep it to be a flex fuel engine, but MOPAR never took it further and tuned it for flex fuel or E85.

If you are getting bad gas, you are getting bad gas, possibly a summer blend issue, but it's not anything else. Ya just are getting bad gas.

 

[Hootbro]

It could be the gas, too....this Ethanol crap seems to make my Pentastar run more sluggish. I know it's not my imagination, and it seems to have only started doing that since they released the 10% stuff for the summer.

Never heard of Ethanol be removed for winter blend fuel, it is usually the butane that gets played with, not the Ethanol.

Around here, unless the pump says otherwise, it is 10% Ethanol year round.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Never heard of Ethanol be removed for winter blend fuel, it is usually the butane that gets played with, not the Ethanol.

Around here, unless the pump says otherwise, it is 10% Ethanol year round.

Yes.
The pumps must be marked, and what's 10% is 10% regardless of season.
What's plain gasoline is plain gasoline regardless of season.
It's not the ethanol that changes.
Besides, in the winter they want a higher RVP - and in the summer, a lower RVP, and since ethanol evaporates more quickly, it's not what would be added in the summer. In the summer they want to reduce evaporation.
Higher butane (about 10%) in the winter, and they reduce the butane in the summer (still usually has some, but only a percent or two)
Summer blends actually contain a bit more energy. So, technically, just because of the summer gasoline blends, you should see a tiny change in economy - for the better.

 

[Summitsearcher]

I’ve had bad gas before, not just in the summer.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I’ve had bad gas before, not just in the summer.

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