kenyu73

I just bought my 2010 a few days ago. I'm curious on two things.

1) When I first start it after its been sitting, I get blue smoke (oil burning I assume). I can only think its oil leaking down through the lifters/valves? Is this somewhat common? I had a 2007 GT and I sorta remember my 07 doing it too sometimes.

2) I'm hearing ticking at idle all the time. It doesn't go away. Its just a constant drone.... tick.tick.tick.tick.. about 2 ticks/sec. Lifters? FI? Is this normal?

If I have a bad lifter (#2), would that cause #1?

Not sure if these will help... just sounds very "noisy" to me.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y53igw2mr4...2011.29.17.mp4
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ey8mddrm0e...2011.30.00.mp4

Thanks!

Nuke

1) The S197 4.6 is notorious for a puff of smoke if it's been started after a short start/stop. I'll back her out of the garage to wash her and when I start it a few hours later to pull her backj in, she'll puff. It only happens on those types of situations with many of the 4.6's.

2) There's a TSB for noisey fuel injectors which will tick pretty loud. Not much you can do about it, if that's what yours is.

ancona46

its the injectors you hear ticking its normal

kenyu73

I have an appt for tomorrow (5/12/2012) to have the 'ticking' checked out. Hopefully they'll have something in the TSB that includes a simple fix. I just hope they dont come back with "that's an acceptable noise". There's nothing like opening your hood for a friend and all you can hear is all that rattling and ticking.

Leon Wincrantz

Iknow I'm late to the party, but you don't have the vids of the noise still? I'm getting a noise from my 2010 GT and I'm thinking it's the same noise as you hade, just duobblec ​​​​​