# Help~Engine Ticking BAD

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [July 1, 2009, 6:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-engine-ticking-bad/245142 "2009-07-01T06:27:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![TurboTravis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/turbotravis/32/6406_2.png) [@TurboTravis](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TurboTravis)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 2:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-engine-ticking-bad/245142/132 "2009-07-02T02:58:02Z")

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> [@Anyone know where to find the Bills "The Comeback" Vid?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-know-where-to-find-the-bills-the-comeback-vid/20096/5):
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> thank you.
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> technically, you should wait even a bit after that. that is COOLANT temp, not OIL temp. if the oil isn’t as warm as it should be, its still abusing it.

Exactly, people don’t listen to me when I talk about oil temps, so I just throw the ‘few minutes’ out there. Personally, I’ve found the oil to take roughly double the time to come up to normal temp as the water.

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