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You said yourself you listened to it and it’s the waste gate making noise. Which is considered normal by Fords standards. Your probably wasting your time.Ford says the ticking noise is normal…… so I think I’m going to find someplace else to take it.
So you opened the valve cover and then figured out?Update:
Found it last night, it was a bad roller rocker on the exhaust side. The bearing failed, I installed the new rocker and it’s running great now.
That’s correct opened the valve cover and turned the crank checking each roller follower by trying to move it on the lifter side by hand when the apex of the cam lobe was sticking straight up for the follower being checked.So you opened the valve cover and then figured out?