Doing my usual maintenance and picked up on a rhythmic tick from the front/passenger side of the engine? Looks like the harmonic balancer might not be running true.. little wobbly but nothing so far off as to be a real problem. Thing is the tick was not repeating fast enough.
Too far forward to be the oil pump and too far down to be a cracked plug on #1 (Gong to check that now) but it did seem to come from the front of the engine.
Hmm.. Actually the headlights were on.. need to go make sure it wasn't the charging circuit relay. Know it wasn't the AC compressor. :)
Actually I wonder if it might be the timing chain? It's not a scraping noise, more of a slap/tick.. which I suppose could be just that. ..oh joy.. :/
Oh well, I'm sure the problem will become apparent in due time. :| It's easier to find the broken part when it's laying in a puddle of oil under the engine.