I would recommend you take off the valve cover and inspect it even though it could be a blown exhaust manifold gasket. A valve adjuster may have been loosened or you may have broken a valve spring. Whatever it is - you should try to locate the problem before it potentially does some damage. Harold McElraft - 3354 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Bernie" <bmanderville@xxxx> wrote: > All, > > I just put a new alternator on one of my D's today and took it out for > a test drive. The throttle got stuck wide open with ni load for a few > seconds, don't know what it got caught on, carpet or otherwise, I > tapped it with my foot and it dropped back to idle. Now there is a > very LOUD, ticking noise coming from the drivers side of the engine. > Does anyone have any ideas where I should start looking. Or should I > just start looking for a new engine. Though it still runs, and starts > no problem, just that noise. > > Thanks, > > Bernie To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/