I have a ticking noise. Not valve train, doesn’t sound like a bearing. Screw driver trick pointed to belt tensioner but I replaced tensioner and belt. Which leads me to timing chain or chain tensioner. Noise was present with belt off so that rules out any accessory pulley. I feel its to high pitch to be a spun bearing, not to mention I dont think the motor would have lasted 30k miles. Motor has 56k miles, been doing this since I got the car with 27k on it. Motor rev’s fine, car is completely drivable. One would think with bad/stretched timing chain motor would run like ass with timing being off. So I guess I’m wondering if anyone has had a similar noise like this, could it be timing related or maybe a bad lifter?
Info on car-
2001 cavi
2.2 motor
56k miles
automatic
Video of noise, taken with phone so seems louder than it really is