[s-cars] Ticking power steering pump.

[Mark Rivera]

I had posted a couple weeks ago about a ticking noise coming from the front
of the engine.  It didn't sound like a rod bearing, and it didn't sound like
a lifter, although most of you thought it probably was.  I ran the car hard
enough yesterday that I DID hear some lifter noise that eventually went
away, and this ticking is definitely a different sound.  Last night, I got
the stethescope out and started probing.  It took a while to track it down,
but the noise is loudest when I put the probe on the x plug of the power
steering pump.  I tried other places on the pump and didn't hear anything.
The x-plug isn't leaking at all.

Any ideas?

Mark