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98 k3500 ticking

euzoa

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Alright ladys and gents, I've been gone a while (to much work) but lets see if you still have it.

The ranch I'm living on has a 98 k3500 with a 5.7 with 260,XXX miles that is ticking and supposedly the oil pressure drops over time (havent confirmed) that they asked me to look at.

I cut the filter than there was a decent amount of steel in it, when they drained the oil the plug apparently had a bunch of metal on it. I put on a new filter, filled it with oil and pulled the rocker covers, number 3 intake is oiling quite a bit less than the rest (took about 5 minutes to start oiling), but all the rockers move about the same amount, none of them feel excessively loose, and i cant pin down the noise.

any thoughts? or should I just talk them into a rebuild, rip it out and tear it down
 
if it is a crew cab you should just give it to me for free and not worry about the noise anymore! :D
 

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