Ford finally acknowledges the 50l coyote engine tick with service bulletin 7718 street707 mustang vlogger fpv pilot pc gamer. An update to the ongoing process of finding out what the tick was in the coyote motor that was in my 2011 mustang gt.
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5 0 coyote engine tick. Some 2018 2019 f 150 and mustang vehicles equipped with a 50l engine may exhibit a light to moderate knocking type noise at idle 600 700 rpm that is sometimes described as a quiet diesel type sound. It turns out that this had a spun beari. Sometimes referred to as a bbq tick it sounds a little bit like a starter in a barbecue grill. Recently theres been a great deal of discussion over an engine tick in the 2018 2019 mustang. 50 liter why its gone. There are tee shirts and facebook groups dedicated to it.
The tsb only applies to the coyote 50. Ford did not issue a tsb against modifying their other engines this is a very strong indicator that they do not have confidence in the breaking point limits of the coyote engineyou know the one that comes in the most modded car in history. According to cidsamtuh the ticking noise happens after the car is warmed up and the dealer was able to replicate the noise after trying a few times. Others have called it the typewriter tick. Post cidsamuth posted a detailed account of what happened after he brought his ticking 50 into his ford dealership. The noise is usually more prominent on the passenger side of the vehicle toward the rear of the engineas the engine comes up to operating temperature.