Since identifying and repairing the knocking noise which was the spacing of the windage tray, we noticed a ticking noise. Weeks before we fixed the spacing of the windage tray we thought the knocking noise was coming from the rockers so we replaced the rockers.
We checked the adjustment of the rockers yesterday and they were fine. While we had the valve covers off, we ran the motor for a little while. I really dont know much about cars but my buddy mentioned something that I thought was interesting and I would like to hear some opinions. In this video you can see that there is plenty of oil flow on the right hand side but there seems to be not as much on the left side. You cant really hear the ticking noise in the video but when we put the valve cover on you can. My buddy feels there's a blockage of oil which is preventing a consistant flow of oil. There are no witness Mark's on the valve covers. What do you guys think? Is it supposed to look like this?
https://youtu.be/KAwSYevxsb4
Ticking:
https://youtu.be/G1hXVsu577c