Tons of Valve Chatter.. help =] 98 explorer

[slowjett]

Well its a 98 explorer, 4.0 SOHC, Automatic. Its real bad at an idle, not really noticable when you step on the gas at all.. Changed oil, helped a little, strated useing premium, The chatter actually went away for a week, then came back, or maybe i jsut didnt notice it, but its loud.. Any ideas how to solve this problem? Im gonna use some type of oil aditive to see if that works.. Any ideas?

 

[Redrig]

if it is your valves making noise only at idle it could be a weak oil pump. at idle thats the only thing i can think of.

 

[Deak]

Is your motor up to date with the recalls? The front timing cam guides go bad and it makes a rattle/clatter sound. Had mine done a couple of months ago only to have the rear go bad 2 weeks after I had the front done. Which isn't under recall I am going to get that fixed soon. Go to a harbor freight and buy a 5 dollar stethoscope and see if you can pinpoint the noise at idle. Thats what I did

Deak

 

[slowjett]

Yeah the ford dealer refused to preform any recalls on my vehical. The f&*kers. They are the biggest scumbags over there (wilberham mass ford dealer). I had to buy the recall kit for the upper intake seals, it came with the timeing tesioner but i never put it in when i did the gaskets.. hmm wonder if can find that somewhere