Re: Help with Loud Ticking (video included)

Posted by 58L8134 On 2019/12/14 11:51:20

"The reason I think there is potential to have dropped a 3/8" nut in the cylinder is because when I was working on the starter, I set the 3/8" nut that fastens to ignition wire to the starter terminal on the engine. When I went to reinstall the starter, the nut wasn't there"

What opening would have allowed a nut to enter the engine? Were your spark plugs out? There's been only time I've seen a nut end up putting a hole in a piston. It happened because the fellow who owned a six cylinder '57 Ford truck always insisted on putting one of those cheap chrome air cleaners on which had the nut on the bottom of the bolt. The vibration of the engine worked it lose, it was sucked through the carburetor and put a neat, round hole in piston number eight.

A nut has to have a way to get into an essentially closed system. How would that have happened to your car?

Steve