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TundraGeneral discussion forum for the 2007 and later Toyota Tundra.
This is a discussion thread titled "Poll for those with the dreaded ticking motor", within the Tundra forum, part of the Truck Forums category.
I would be interested in how you would know if it was using oil?I have a real hard time trying to read the dipstick.Maybe I am doing something wrong but it comes out in a big smear everytime even after sitting overnight.04 was same way.
I find mine fairly easy to read... Although I have no idea how many litres there are between full and empty on the dipstick, so I don't know what sort of resolution you get on changes in oil level.
I suppose the other indicator would be a cloud of blue smoke behind the truck .
What you think I am hearing things?My 04 had it and now my 07 has it.Plus the 07 has a knock when warm and blows oil every so often on startup.Seems like 3years and a new engine didnt help get rid of some motor issues Toyota has. Instead they got worse.
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I have owned nothing but Toyotas since 1984 starting with a 79,84,89,04 and now 07 plus 2 Camrys.Yes I am VERY disappointed.Think I will stick with Toyotas?
And I'm still sort of wondering why the ticking motor is dreaded?
Honestly, I don't this anybody has the foggiest idea what anybody else is talking about. The "dreaded" sound is described in many different ways... is it ticking, clunking, knocking, tapping, etc?
At idle, my Tundra is still quieter than my Subaru. It's just a loud engine due to its design geometry. It's been a great car for me, and I'm sure it will continue to be so.
The injectors are big and loud, the pistons are forged, the stainless steel tubular headers are loud, yada yada... it's pretty much all been said already. Is the sound of the cold idling engine really abnormal? I vote no.
This isn't the first engine Toyota has ever built. At the very least, it's the second... maybe third.
Anyways, until there is some evidence to the contrary, I am going to continue about my normal life and enjoy my dieseling sound
Maybe my use of the word "Dreaded" was a bit much, but I surely didnt expect in 2008 that a gasoline engine make this much noise, and by noise I mean, clicking, clacking,rattling.
Someone in an earlier post said that its because of Quad cams, 4 valves per Cylinder,timing chains. I understand all of that, but like I also stated, my Cobra with the 4.6 DOHC 4 valves per cylinder, forged internals,timing chains, big injectors, supercharged Car NEVER made any such Noise with either the stock engine or this Built engine. Heck my wife's 2006 4.7 Sequoia engine is so quiet you cant even tell its running.
This thread was not to dis Toyota's or that the 5.7 engine is a "bad" designed engine, I was just wanting to get some real world feedback from owners who have had the truck for some time and "if" their ticking noise ever became a major issue with failure.
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Originally Posted by Canadian_Yoda
Err... Now I R confused
And I'm still sort of wondering why the ticking motor is dreaded?
Honestly, I don't this anybody has the foggiest idea what anybody else is talking about. The "dreaded" sound is described in many different ways... is it ticking, clunking, knocking, tapping, etc?
At idle, my Tundra is still quieter than my Subaru. It's just a loud engine due to its design geometry. It's been a great car for me, and I'm sure it will continue to be so.
The injectors are big and loud, the pistons are forged, the stainless steel tubular headers are loud, yada yada... it's pretty much all been said already. Is the sound of the cold idling engine really abnormal? I vote no.
This isn't the first engine Toyota has ever built. At the very least, it's the second... maybe third.
Anyways, until there is some evidence to the contrary, I am going to continue about my normal life and enjoy my dieseling sound
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2008 5.7 Silver Sky Metallic Tundra SR5 Crew Max
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jaymack, in your 61k miles of experience, has your truck ever consumed oil?
[edit] same question to anybody else with high mileage trucks.
I have rarely noticed any drop on the dipstick. I have been changing lately at 7-8K miles. I check my oil every other fill up... I fill up about 5 times per week. Yes, I'm doing my part to help speed up global warming - if it exists.
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I have rarely noticed any drop on the dipstick. I have been changing lately at 7-8K miles. I check my oil every other fill up... I fill up about 5 times per week. Yes, I'm doing my part to help speed up global warming - if it exists.
Al Gore may not have invented the internet, but he did make up global warming?
I was able to get a good oil level reading by letting truck sit overnight and then taking dipstick out,wiping it and putting it back in then out again.Was right at full mark so cloud I saw at startup twice must have just been a bunch of gas burning off since it was bluish tinted.As far as the knocking cold and warm no change with a oil change to 0w20 Amsoil.Will make an appointment at dealer and let them hear it.
I have rarely noticed any drop on the dipstick. I have been changing lately at 7-8K miles. I check my oil every other fill up... I fill up about 5 times per week. Yes, I'm doing my part to help speed up global warming - if it exists.
5 times per week? wow what is your current mileage? You should break 100,000 miles in a year give or take....
Sorry for not getting back, but I've been working alot of long hours lately.OK I took my truck to the dealer, the mechanic and I heard the noise
briefly then it went away. The mech. told me it was an idle pulley or maybe the water pump. I'll tell you guys what it sounds like. A marble hitting up against steel that's the best way to explain it. Anyway my truck had been leaking oil and I thought it was my oil pan but it turns out it's the dipstick
o-ring which they had to order.
My wifes 4runner (05) makes a noise similar to the diesel ticking noise and I brought it to the dealer and they said there was nothing they can do. Its the injectors clattering, I would think they could change the injectors. this is the V6 4.0 motor. My 06 tundra 4.7 doesn't make that noise...thank god.
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