Do you hear a tick?

Well this past summer while at our local "Crawl for the Cure" I ended up with a tick in the motor or so I thought after a long uphill climb. Oil was a little low but pressure was good(40psi)so I topped off the oil and kept driving. The tick never changed but didn't really sound like a lifter or exhaust leak and definitely was not a rod.

So today I started in on it to see what I was up against. I did the poor mans stethoscope with snowmobile gas line and it was the loudest when I would slide it down behind the drivers side head. Then I pulled the inspection cover and found that I must have some thing coming loose on the back side of the block when I saw these 2 shiny streaks/groves in the flywheel.

Nice to find out it's not internal but I still will need to pull the motor or the trans/T-case to fix it.

 

interesting , but what is bolted to back of engine , cam shaft cover ???

 

Got this out


Then this


Removed the bell,clutch and flywheel and saw this


Now what made those marks?
Like dad said"look at the parts you remove before you move on when looking for a problem"

Then I found this






Inspection cover probable got bent from running over who knows what on the trail.
I'm hoping this was my tick.
Oh well I guess it's a good time to put in a new clutch.