Oil pressure is great..new filter and about 60psi if i saw it right..i didnt so much look at the number as i was just making sure it had pressure to load up the bearings and lifters etc. Yeah guys I've been thru this about a year ago and you all gave me good advice...I was just hoping it was the lifters. I had the injector knock before and those were all replaced and it ran great. I haven't put a stethescope under the oil pan. When I had the pan down, I tried to move the connecting rods, and I didnt see any obvious movement except longitudinally..which seems like that would be a normal thing (sliding on the journal).
No metal (chunks) were found in the oil pan and i didnt do any kind of oil analysis...dont even know where i would have done that.
serpentine belt was off at startup so no accessories to blame..didnt run it long just enough to know it wasn't going away.
Yes Steel I had all those noises before and they all largely went away with the injector change out. But this is really much more pronounced and also it gets worse with revs..the flywheel knock was only at idle when it was missing. This noise doesn't go away...EVER
I saw a utube video about a straw in the sparkplug hole to find tdc and then pushing down on the piston after tdc on the down stroke to find slop in the rod. I don't know if that test will work because i don't think its a straight shot to the piston ..at an angle from the sparkplug i think.