Mr Penguin

So done the screw driver trick, didn't help pinpoint, sound coming from top, front and exhaust side of the head, slightly louder in the front. Only does it when starting the car when it's hot, and only at idle. It's got my confused, changed all spark plugs and torqued them to spec, still there. Narrowing it down to either timing tensioner or lifter knock. Car only has 98ks so doubt timing related

hey guys, last few days my fg turbo developed this knock/tick on idle, iv searched multiple forums and threads and haven't come across something similar to this, its been to the mechanic twice and they cannot fault it and/or haven't heard the noise, it sounds like its coming from cylinder 1 or the timing cover, its got me stumped because its intermittent, doesn't increase with revs, just sounds like something is knocking around inside and I got no idea. if anyone had this before or has a rough idea of what it could be that would be awesome because its got me stuffed. for some reason I cant upload a video so here is a link to youtube videos, cheers.