medrick

Alright i just got done putting my tranny in and i went for a test drive. As soon as I started the engine it made a weird noise. It's similar to like when kids put a baseball card on their spokes and ride their bicycle (except louder). Is it possible for the flywheel and starter to not mesh up and to be hitting each other? It gets faster when rpm's increase.

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oxfordgt

You need to give a better discription of where the sound is coming from.

medrick

alright i went back out this morning put it up on ramps and got underneath it. the noise is coming from inside the bellhousing and it drectly correlates to the engine speed. That makes me think it's gotta be something with the flywheel.

Stevecooper

I would tend to agree.. either way I would bet that the tranny is coming back out.

medrick

yeah and thats the sh1tty part cause i've got longtubes and they are no fun to pull off and put back on. makes a hour and a half tranny job 6 hours.

oxfordgt

Have you tried to drive it yet? Does the noise stop when you push in the clutch?

medrick

yeah i drove it around the block. same thing. noise is there with the clutch in and out. i took it up to 3k just to make sure and the noise was a lot faster. do you hav any ideas? I just cant wrap my head around what could possibly make this noise. I'm gonna have to pull it back out tomorrow on my day off so i wanting to know what to look for. I had the tranny rebuilt about 4 months ago put it in myself and no problems until the synchro went out again in 4th so i pulled it last week had them fix it and put it in last night and now this.

NeedStangSpeed

Good question and to add to it, what was the reason for taking it out in the first place? did you change anything? I would tend to believe that the noise is one of two things, throw out bearing, or pressure plate. Then again, there's a slim chance maybe the cable is not letting the clutch to engage all the way, once you disconnect the cable from the tranny the self adjuster automatically pulls in what slack it can. Did you adjust the quadurant?

medrick

i originally took it out because the 3/4 shifter fork broke. when i took it out the first time i put in a new clutch, pressure plate, throwout bearing, and pilot bearing. the second time yesterday i put in a new pilot bearing but left everything else alone. i adjusted the clutch cable underneath and then made some final adjustments on the firewall adjuster.

NeedStangSpeed

hmm, well none of that makes much sense, the only place I can point my finger at now is the shop who just fixed it, they may have tried to hurry up because it was the second time they had messed with it. They may have screwed something up inside this time.