help ... lifter problem maybe

My car has been making some clicking noises when I push the gas. Oil is fine just changed it maybe 2,000 miles ago was getting rdy to change it again soon. Car only has 37,000 miles on it. I dont have the money to take it to the garage right now but im thinking its one of the lifter(s). One of my friends said I could be running too low of a grade oil maybe need to get a higher grade. I just been using 30 weight. Any help or suggestions would be grateful ... thx

Lifter tick sounds like a time bomb...if you do have it, it wont cause any damage, just change the oil and filter...go with redline(it usually eliminates the ticking). As for weight and viscosity...I don't know what your manual recommends and what works for you guys, so I'll leave that for someone else to answer.

yea Im actually not for sure either ... don't know either I don't have a manual for my car :( but would there be a site I could get a online manual perhaps?



also when I press the gas it only starts out clickin gets louder and sometime once I reach high rpms it fades out but sometimes it clicks all the way up the to 6000 or just fades out.

did a oil change this morning ... the garage I had it changed at said the oil I used was just fine for that car and they changed it for me ... Still getting the clicking noise when pressing the gas that garage evne told me it was the lifters they opened the valve cover and took a better look and said it was just one of the lifters that was bad but they woudn't know which one it was and I would probably just have to buy a whole set of lifters....

I had the same thing happen to my car about 2 months ago. I run 50 weight synthetic oil from amsoil, so I know quality isnt a problem. I let the problem ride out a little, and now it has stopped. Search the threads, I asked the same question, and got alot of replies to it when we still had a few people that I respected alot. Im not sure where they are now, must of been from stupid people posting. Oh well. I've found a new forum that blows everything else away.

they said using that weight of oil would be too thick for my car ... what kind of car do you have ?

Mine is a 2001 Eclipse GS

Hi - sorry for reviving a dead thread but I wanted to pass along some info which may be helpful. I have had this same tapping/ticking noise and I had my garage run a conditioner through it and it my lifters are no longer tapping. Here is the thread from another forum with the info they used, etc.

http://www.club3g.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16848

hope this solves your problem.

Sorry to bring back this old thread, but I wanted to clear something up. I have had that same clicking noise and I went to the dealer and asked them and they told me that it was actually my oil filter, b/c Mitsu's oil filters have a "double check valve" in them or something as to where the aftermarket ones only have a single. Not sure if that is true or not, but it seems that changing out my filter really has gotten rid of the ticking in my lifters! And, i only paid $15 for three filters.

uhhh for real? oem spec is the only one that will do that?! THAT SUX, ok i'll go get a filter soon cuz its oil change time anyways

not sure if it's true or not, but thats what they told me, and it really did help!!

Sorry to bring back this old thread, but I wanted to clear something up. I have had that same clicking noise and I went to the dealer and asked them and they told me that it was actually my oil filter, b/c Mitsu's oil filters have a "double check valve" in them or something as to where the aftermarket ones only have a single. Not sure if that is true or not, but it seems that changing out my filter really has gotten rid of the ticking in my lifters! And, i only paid $15 for three filters.


I don't think I understand: so which filter did you then use to get rid of the noise?

The filters that Mitsu originally puts onto the cars. You can buy them at the dealer