nah hahahaha see at first i took them out and just set them aside... then a bunch of people where like woahh dont do that thats bad... sooo i put them in oil like 3 hours after when i got home... soo 2 weeks later i put everything back together started it and it ran good and stuff and it just started to happen.... out of no where soo then people said " Hey did you bleed the lifters" and im like "uhhhh no i didnt think you had to.. asumed most lifters bleed them selfs correct? well i took the head apart and bleed them at least i thought i did it right... i put them in oil and took and allen key and stuck it in the hole on the top.. pushed around till i found the spot that pushed in and let me pump the lifter.. then i took them out of the oil stright up not tilted to the side during this whole process and stuck it back into its spot that it came out of... put the head back together started it up and still this happend.. how would i beable to pin point if its a knock... anything i can do while its still in the car to make sure its rod knock? my buddy miles said to take a screw driver and try lightly pushing down on the piston to see if it has play? also another friend said just unplug injectors till the noise goes away.. if it goes away then its knock on that spasific cylcnder...