3406E Ticking

A broken spring on one the injectors will produce a tick. Look closely at all the injector springs. Could have a broken one.

The bark thru your aircleaner when lifting off very fast under full boost is a good way to bust the shaft in your turbo.
Lift off little slower and it wont do it.

Its called turbo surge. Its doing it to both aircleaners but your just hearing it thru the drivers side because thats the one your closest too while driving.

 

The ticking is most likely a loose component in the valve train, the why it is loose could be cam lobe, worn rocker or possibly a collapsed injector plunger among other things

 

If it doesn't change much from idle to full throttle it could be a bad motor mount.

 

Just check your injector springs. Ive seen this before.

 

When you let off the throttle does it sound more like a huff? Do you have a non-waste gate turbo? Or a pinched off waste gate? If yes to any of these questions that is normal with a tune. Your basicly stalling the turbo for a split second. Just let off the pedal a little slower. The ticking sound , loose rocker adjustment flat spot on cam or cam follower or a weak or broke injector or valve spring. Or the most common thing loose or blown turbo gasket or bolts or manifold gasket.

 

24 hours thanking and reading other posts reminded my of this. I replaced the heads on an 8V-92 and started it with the intake off of the turbo. It was back firing and popping out the turbo. I could actually see the turbo stall. Went over the overhead again but saw now real problem. The longer it ran the better it was and put it to work.
About six months latter it started running very bad and blowing puffy white smoke. Pulled the exhaust manifolds and ran it. The white smoke was only from one side. Checked the adjustments and such- OK.
The problem was poor machine work.
It did everything your are describing and there was not anything consistent about it.
These electronic engines can also do funny things. Saw a 11.1 that I would have bet a paycheck it was about to throw a rod out the block. The regular driver said no! When it starts doing that going down the road just turn the key off for a bit and turn it back on. He was correct and an ECM fixed it.