Hello all looking for a little assistance on diagnosing a noise coming from my ’02 Scrambler 500 4×4. I recently picked up this machine & dont believe this is a "normal polaris" noise. From start up it has a loud ticking noise from what appears to me to be the top end area. It does continue at a faster pace as the RPMS increase. The machine starts & runs fine & seems to have good power. It also burns oil at an excessive rate, like from full to on the bottom portion of the stick after riding hard for a few hours, however the plug is never saturated with oil & has a light sandy brown color. Also intermittently you can see & smell burning oil (trail of white smoke behind you). I immediately assumed it was something in the valve train & removed the valve cover. I saw nothing noticeably wrong with the valves or cam chain, also removed & inspected the cam chain tensioner assembly. While I had it apart, I followed the manual & adjusted the valves. Once reassembled it did seem slightly quiter but still present. Im thinking next I want to do a compression check but figured I would ask around to see if anyone had some ideas for me. It would let me attach a video but i put a link to a youtube video of it to hopefully help. Any thoughts, ideas, or experiences anyone could share would be greatly appreciated!