ok so ive been looking for this noise in my engine it make a ticking/clicking and it only happens when in gear gets louder and goes with the engine when i accelerate. well we looked around and found something making the noise and you could feel it when it clicked but this also shocked the sh*! outta a friend of mine so this is the pic of that. and my other problem was last night i got off work and decided to give betsy a bath there with the hotsy pressure washer, and this is where i may have screwed up but i kinda misted the engine off a bit i didn't hit the engine directly with the washer but just misted over it to get some of the dust off, anyway went back in the shop had a few beers and talked with the boss, went to leave and betsy fired right up drove out to the road, forgot my jacket turned around and went back to get it, came back out to the main road, started making the turn and betsy dies mid road, get off as far as i can and try to start her... nothing, power in the cab not to the starter, pop the hood figit with the battery wires a bit and get her to start, throw her in drive and hit the gas ... dies again try this a few more times until i finally get her to go after reving in neutral and dropping it into drive, i know not good but when your stuck on the roadside with a few beers in ya i wanted to get the hell outta that spot, so any way after this she drove home the 30 mile just fine no more problems last night but haven't tried today, so whats this sound like ? im hoping a bit of water in the wrong place that hopefully evaporated by now. thanks all sorry for the long story but details count lol

 

I haven't seen anything like that before. My vent manifold is in that location. Do those cables go up to the distributor perchance? Do you have a standard coil on the fire wall behind the air cleaner?

I think you are right about getting water where it didn't belong. Did you spray the engine compartment above the drivers side front tire?

 

ok let me look some more and try and figure out where it goes as far as the water yeah i kinda misted the whole thing and got the wheel wells really well so... and i think its a normal silinoid idk ill get more pics

 

ok best i can tell is it might be a solenoid, egr something like that it has 4 air lines that go off to various places on the engine .

 

just another quick question is anyone elses steering colum from the point where it tilts loose? i have about 1" 2" of play up and down in my steering wheel.

 

i have heard of people having loose tilt steering. i forget what they had to replace to fix the problem but i think you would have to take the steering wheel off to fix it.

 

yeah thats what i thought ok well how about this one, after i start betsy for the first time like in the morning or whenever i first leave when i try and move the shifter its hard as hell to get it to move but after the first shift its fine but the first time kinda worries me now its making a noise i dont like

 

what does the trans fluid look like and is the fluid level correct?

 

the level is fine just checked it today i know theres a small leak around my pan im just waiting for the $$ to do a fluid change and filter just need some $ to get parts if i could id do it tomorrow, but why is it rough and hard to shift only on the first time ? idle time and temp make no difference, btw thanks wolfie for all the help so what no ideas on my mystery picture?

 

i have no clue what that is. i have never seen that on my trucks or in any of the resources i have access to.