Pilot Bearing going bad?
08-12-2009, 10:38 AM
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Well Ford's warranty time is 2.3hrs for R+I trans, and .3hrs for clutch replacement. So customer pay your looking at ~5-6hrs labor. Standard Ford shop rate is about 95-97$ an hour. I cant tell you what an independent shop will charge, but it will be close. So figure 500$ in labor plus parts..
08-12-2009, 12:46 PM
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I began to second guess myself upon reading the chirping mentioned, but didn't see that post untill after my own. When my bearings were going out, it was a sort of grinding sound and was ultimately diagnosed by my tuner on the dyno. He was able to hear it from under the car under heavy load. I decided to make lemonaid and install a T-56 #1260, as I always hated the HUGE gap between 4th~5th gears and low 1st gear. I have a sticky in this section.
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08-12-2009, 07:59 PM
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Ok well thanks for all the replies. I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with the issue but for some reason for the first time ever today when I got into my car the needle just stayed buried at 0. When I started to drive it never moved, finally after about 5 minutes it started jumping around. Than I stopped and it literally jumped up too 100mph while I was in neutral!! The car seamed to idle a lil strange but not too out of the normal, anyone have a quick suggestion on what in the world is probably happening now? guhh
08-13-2009, 10:48 AM
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It's still doing it today, it seams strange cuz I have no other electrical problems with the car and none of the other guages move, and it happened right around same time as this t/o bearing deal escalated it seams. These are linked in any ways or the tranny possibly?
08-13-2009, 06:06 PM
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The chirping sounds like TOB as stated above since it goes away when you push in the clutch. I have the same problem with my aftermarket one FTL. The speedo being funky and bouncing around looks like a speed sensor issue or maybe the connector/wiring to it.
08-13-2009, 06:18 PM
#19
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Ya thats exactly what mine sounds like real chirping like noise seams like its just got progressively louder its so annoying, I don't even have to barely touch the clutch and it will go silent. Like sometimes when I'm at a drive thru or something I'm embarrassed by it and touch the clutch a lil to silence the damned thing!
08-14-2009, 12:02 PM
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You're clutch will go out soon. On easter I was cruzzin, heard the noise and smoke came out behind the motor by the transmission and I was like wtf! My clutch went out, literally out of the blue. I heard the noise for a while as well but didn't know what it was and all of a sudden my clutch gave out. Took her home going from 1st-3rd-5th gear..lol 
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