Do you hear it knocking at idle? upon acceleration? Take a sparkplug wire off one at a time until you find it. COuld be a loose rocker arm, bent pushrod, bad rod bearing. My thoughts, rod bearing.
The plug trick will work with rod bearing failure.
You do NOT need a $75 an hour mechanic to troubleshoot that.
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