ticking at idle?

[nquestion]

when my car is idling, less than ~800 rpm, i hear this annoying tick. i have an auto, when i put it in park, the idle goes up a little and sound goes away. but when the idle falls below ~800 i hear it again. i had the top tesioner removed already. does it just make this sound when the engine is under a lot of strain?

the car has 100k on it, oil is full and clean. what could it be?

[navysnail]

year, engine, ect... any info that might help

[book-ends]

How is your oil pressure? Running out of oil will cause the lifters to tick due to lack of pressure.

[nquestion]

its a stock 95.

i havent checked oil pressure. if you take take the cap off oil will spray out, and there are no lights coming on, so i assume its fine.

i will have to put a gauge on it sometime.

[allthrottlenobottle]

my 91 does the same thing.not a loud tick but its there. i have the tensioners removed and oil is good. could it be the timing chain just sounds that way?

[entity]

My car does that also..I always assumed it was the fan or something.

[nquestion]

is there more than 1 tensioner that can be taken out? i thought the top one was the problematic one, so i have removed it.

[driftaholic]

i had a tick once. turned out to be a loose spark plug, held in by only 2 threads and it was bouncing up each time the cylinder fired.

good luck