As the weather has given me a window to pin the liners i started it the other day. My liner slip is on the passenger side so decided just to do this side.
Sump off , exhaust manifold off, engine mount off. Arr just where you need to drill we have the gearbox cooler pipes. Pull them out the way and we are cookin. New 5mm drills purchased and an angle air drill i hacked at the cylinders. Now my hands are not small but i have long fingers so i was just able to feel the pin in the cylinder wall, forget it if you have mars bar fingers.
Locked with loctite thread lock the pinning was done. Note the engine mount has to come off to access the second and third cylinder in that bank.
I had the car up on drive on ramps and on my back most of the day so its a PITA with oil dripping all over you.
Just got the sump to put on tomorrow and fire the beast up. Fingers crossed. Meant to take a video before the job so you could hear it, but did manage to do a short vid underneath to show where to drill.
That thumping ticking was driving me mad so it better be cured. Just an ABS fault now to sort out before another fault rears its ugly head.

Rrrrrrr. Its not the liners. It must be a rocker or a rocker shaft broken valve spring or a hydraulic tappet.
Its starting to get to me now especially as ive frozen my nuts off this morning putting sump back on.
So much for the advice by one of my local landy indy. Beam me up scotty before i drive it off a cliff .

I would have checked that first considering how much easier they would be to check!!!

If you r indy didnt check these and went straight for slipped liner.... Time to find a new indy!

What a bummer!! Lana Del Ray or the Corries 'bricklayer song' on very very loud might solve the ticking?

cant understand why pinning a liner would be considered a fix of any problem ,tapping noise is usually a hyd tappet ,

I had a ticking on the Passenger side bank, was concerned of the same but turns out to be from non fuel return valve (on top of the rocker cover) - pretty obvious once i got my ear to it but sounds do get thrown around in the engine bay. It's an outside chance but worth a check.

Cracked exhaust manifold can also produce a ticking noise.

Oh well at least your liners won't slip pictures would be nice

Datatek said:

Cracked exhaust manifold can also produce a ticking noise.

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I had similar (Gasket gone) on my 3.9 Classic...took me bloody ages to track the fault down, till I put my hand on the manifold to lean over looking at something, and the noise stopped...took my hand off and it stated again....a thin beamed torch pointed in the right direction showed exhaust trails from the offending gasket...replaced and happy days!

I did find a leaking exhaust manifold gasket but thats not the problem.
I did take in a lot of vids off you tube and had a similar sound.
I suspect a knackered rocker . To an earier post. Its a lot quicker to drop the sump than take the top off. I have a thor with gas so its tight at the back and have to get the gas pipes off before you take the inlet manifold off. You cannot take the rocker covers off until the top bananas are off.
ABS playing up now. The cars now loaaded up and going to take it out of those pigeons that are goroging on my mates rape crop.