I hate to be a pain but I really could use some ideas...

[Brian Raymond]

The original message is below. I'm just hoping someone can give me some
ideas on why my car would make a very loud ticking sound for the second or
so before it shifts up when I'm moderately accelerating. 

		Here is a little background on what has happened. When I got
my car last July it was running great. A few weeks ago the lifters started
chattering a bit and there was a loud clicking noise coming from the engine
every now and then. At first I thought it was a bad oil pressure valve on
the left side, because that was where the lifter noise was. One day a couple
of weeks ago the oil temp light started coming on when I was turning left
(taking oil away from the left side of the engine) and the check engine
light went on and the car started running rough. Thankfully I was in my
driveway letting it warm up when it started to run rough. Well I took it to
the dealer and it was diagnosed as a bad oil retention valve. Along with
that they replaced the crank shaft seals, did a timing belt, water pump,
tensioners and a whole bunch of other stuff (has 85k on it so it was about
that time). Well I got the car back yesterday. It definitely runs better
then it was before but I still have a problem I don't like, and this is
where any ideas of what might be wrong will come in handy.

		The car makes a loud(!) clicking sound (similar to a relay)
like 10 times a second before shifting up (sometimes when shifting down). It
is an automatic. So when I'm accelerating from a stop it will click a few
times then shift at every gear. I have no idea what is causing it since I
don't know much at all about cars, I don't think the mechanic heard it when
test driving it so I'm hoping someone can give me some ideas so when I call
them back I might be able to tell them something.



Brian Raymond

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Nashua, NH
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