ol' grouch wrote:
How long did it sit before you got it? I've seen a lot of cars over the years bog down and not want to go very fast. A few things it could be are;
Mice building a nest in the tail pipe plugging it up.
Internally rusted muffler
Slipped timing chain from miles. They usually last about 120,000 miles but a lot of idlingcan shorten that.
Hook a vacuum guage to the intake and see what you get. A healthy engine will pull between 17 and 20 inches of vacuum.
Now, the ticking could be a sticky lifter.
It drove fine with no ticking 1400 miles from vegas to little rock. The owner told me it was sitting in storage for 5 years. I had to repace the rear fuel pump and sending unit because the gas was old and dirty and the pump didnt work. I drove it with the front fuel pump from vegas to little rock with no problems. I just wanna know whats the acceleration problem? Is it the exhaust manifold cracked or low air pressure from a bad sticky valve making the ticking noise. Ive had for a few months a few weeks ago the ticking started coming from the right side of the engine right on the driver side near the power steering pump. Are you saying I need to do a compression test and see how many pounds of air compression its making? I dont understand or know what a vacumm test is. I did replace the valve cover gaskets and intake manifold gasket but they were all made by felpro and not the original motorcraft,
