I just went ahead and took it to the shop! Would you beleive it stopped ticking when I got about half mile from the shop! I took it anyway because of the miss. The owner told me that since the valve cover gasket was leaking oil into the sparkplug well it most likely fried my wires. So he is putting a new valve cover gasket and plug wires on and checking while he has the cover off to see what might have caused the ticking. He said maybe the old oil stopped up something and it got an air bubble and it just took the new oil a while to get the possible clog and air bubble out. I could have changed the plug wires and valve cover gasket myself but the ticking is what has me worried.