hey guys, just a quick question... is it a bad thing if you can hear one of your fuel injectors from inside your car? i'm pretty sure thats what it is cause i did the screwdriver-stethascope test and the ticking i heard matched perfectly with one of the injectors. thanks

 

I am going to say no, but what do you mean its ticking?

 

another thing i think it might be is the lifter, but its gotten really annoying to the point where i cant stand it anymore

 

I was going to say, if their is a ticking sound is proly going to be a lifter or soemthing in the head. Take off the valve cover and inspect the lifter by the plug that you think the tapping is comming from, also check your oil level normally stuff like that fails because of a lack of oil.

 

ya mitsus are popular to lifter tick and it gets bad when oil change is needed. and if not kept up with on the oil changes the sound can becom permanant

 

i just put mobil 1 synthetic 5k miles oil in it 200 miles ago, checked the levels everythings fine, its been ticking since before the oil change but it seems like its gotten worse lately

 

injectors dont really tick. have you noticed if the ticking louder when the engine is warming up?

 

it doesnt always exactly have to do with how warm the engine is... it does it when its cold sometimees and when its warm

 

I has to be your lifters. Almost every single mitsubishi does this for some reason. Really it is nothing to worry about. You can fix the problem, but if you sont want to spend any money, its not going to hurt your car.

 

ya every mitsu sounds like a sewing machine.