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What is your oil pressure gauge doing? Low oil pressue will cause lifter sound. Check your oil. A small exhaust leak will sound like lifters also, but generally will go away after the exh manifolds heat up, if they have a small crack.
Since changing the oil sender made no change, dash gauge may be dead. Hook up cheap mechanical gauge to see what is really going on. Ticking when first started is probably a lifter and may not be a big problem. How many miles on engine?
You may have a bad oil sending unit this is located under the hood near the oil filter two wires are connected to it. i would change this and see if your problem persists, if so you could have an oil pump you wont hear anything until its too late. 20 psi is all you need to keep it alive. good luck
Nope, normal on start up is 60 PSI and once warmed up drops to 45 psi. Have the oil pressure checked for a proper reading during start up's when the engine is cold. As for the lifters ticking, that may be a sign that the engine was ran with low oil pressure or no oil and the lifters are damaged, or low oil pressure and the lifters are starved of oil. Try not to drive it and have a proper oil pressure reading, low oil pressure will damage the engine by having the main crank bearing to spin which is a engine replacement. Good luck and keep me posted.
I have a 2002 with 130,000 and it ticks,but goes away after 2 min,if yours continues to tick you may have a rocker arm that is getting lose or a lifter that is not pumping up.
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