Squeaking clicking sound in engine 1.4L

[wfabrizio50]

My daughter has a 2018 sonic and it's at about 35000 miles. It has just started making a clicking that has a squeaking like sound. It stops if she's coasting and while braking but when it's idling or accelerating it masks the noise and gets faster as her speed increases. I used to do things on it for her but now at 74 and in bad health I can't help.
willam

 

[Slazster]

Make sure all the spark plugs are at the appropriate torque (18 ft lbs.) A loose spark plug can cause this. If you put your ear down by the crankshaft and hear the squeak, it might be a bad crankshaft seal. A video of the noise might help us more.

 

[83Daytona]

My crankshaft seal would squeak / chirp on shutdown as the pressure was equalizing in the crank case (issue stemming from the PCV system flaws on this engine). Doesn’t quite sound like what you have going on although I’m sure it can manifest itself in other ways. 35k miles is fairly low still although not uncommon for the PCV system to start acting up around this time.