Ok i started my car up this afternoon to go to work and i noticed it was ticking quite loudly and as i reved it up it got louder and faster. I was told by a friend that it was something with the valve timing??? If someone could give me some basic idea of what the problem might be or what i could do to repair it if i would have to take it to a repair shop or if i could do it myself... any help would be awesome but i searched and didnt find anything!

Thanks in advance.
Josh R.

 

Ticking probably wouldn't be valve timing. More likely your valve clearances need to be adjusted.

 

What would it take to adjust them? A repair shop or could i do it?? What about the lifters would those be bad or not? More help please!!!

Josh R.

 

Its not that hard if you have a manual, you also need a feeler guage and it make a lot easier if you get the valve adjustment tool from snap on

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by delsol93guy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">... What about the lifters would those be bad or not?</TD></TR></TABLE>That's what valve adjustment is all about... You don't have hydraulic lifters, it's got rocker levers with screw/nut adjusters on the end.

On your DOHC VTEC head the adjusters are down low where they're a little hard to reach. The proper tool is nice, just imagine a really long deep 10mm socket with a handle. Stick a screwdriver down the middle where the ratchet handle would have been.

Otherwise, maybe there's enough room for a crows foot socket? There's some threads about taking an open-end wrench & bending it so it works like a crows foot.