Ticking sound coming from PCV valve? your thoughts please

Aug 21, 2003 4 Replies

So I was driving the wife's 94 Grand Prix with the 3100. She mainly drives it around town, and I was heading out to the freeway. So I got on it a bit, to help free the carbon that has attached itself to the valves etc ...



I get home, and pull into my parking spot, and I hear this tick tick tick tick, a really fast ticking. I'm thinking to myself, WTF is that. After listening a bit, it sounds like the PCV valve. So I turn the car off, and remove it. Start the car back up, and no tick tick tick. So I shake that PCV valve, and it seems to be moving freely. I put it back into the car, and the damn ticking it back. From what I could see with the valve out, there isn't any excessive blow by (car has 152k miles on it). I could be wrong .. but you shouldn't hear the ticking from a PCV should you?



Your thoughts are most welcome.


Oh, the sweet smell of Wishful Thinking. You're just blaming the PCV valve because it costs $5 and can be replaced in 5 minutes.

Oh no! Not blaming .. I know the little bastard is ticking .. I removed it, and the ticking went away :)

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