please tell me im paranoid... tranny/clutch noise?
09-11-2010, 11:56 AM
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please tell me im paranoid... tranny/clutch noise?
Ok so drove home from work last night... nothing wrong with the car at all.
Got up this morning to go to the grocery store (kinda cool out, low 70s?)
Turn the car on.... kinda a dry/metal rub noise def from the clutch/tranny area under the car.
NOW, I noticed that whenever I put the car in neutral, and released the clutch, I could hear a little chatter from under the car. Press the clutch in... went away. Release clutch... chatter.
WTF? Driving very slow and listening to the car w/ the windows up, my clutch pedal SOUNDS squishy. It feels fine, grabs fine, no slipping or anything. But when you physically press it, it sounds "squishy".
Had to deal w/ that on the way to the grocery store... seemed to calm down the more I drove it.
Parked the car... still a little chatter in neutral and clutch pedal out.
Walked inside, let the car sit for about 15 min. Now no noise at all. No chatter, nothing. No squishy sound. WTF is going on with my car??? I am scared my clutch is about to blow...
Got up this morning to go to the grocery store (kinda cool out, low 70s?)
Turn the car on.... kinda a dry/metal rub noise def from the clutch/tranny area under the car.
NOW, I noticed that whenever I put the car in neutral, and released the clutch, I could hear a little chatter from under the car. Press the clutch in... went away. Release clutch... chatter.
WTF? Driving very slow and listening to the car w/ the windows up, my clutch pedal SOUNDS squishy. It feels fine, grabs fine, no slipping or anything. But when you physically press it, it sounds "squishy".
Had to deal w/ that on the way to the grocery store... seemed to calm down the more I drove it.
Parked the car... still a little chatter in neutral and clutch pedal out.
Walked inside, let the car sit for about 15 min. Now no noise at all. No chatter, nothing. No squishy sound. WTF is going on with my car??? I am scared my clutch is about to blow...
09-11-2010, 04:06 PM
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That the same with me. Every morning when I start the car up everything just feels really wierd until it warms up. Then its totally normal.
09-11-2010, 06:39 PM
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I have a brand new King Cobra clutch and TOB, and I'm hearing chatter when I let the clutch out in neutral... Push in the clutch and it goes away... I hear and feel chatter in 4th as well when running at normal highway speed (3.73 gear). I'll be interested to seewhere this thread goes... it might help me.
09-11-2010, 07:19 PM
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do you think its "bad" as in needs replacing, or "bad" as in, could go soon? because it seems to go away once the car warms up.
What is the price tag on a new TOB? If I have to replace this, I might as well do the clutch as well right? I mean, I have LT's so I only wana go in once.... u know?
What is the price tag on a new TOB? If I have to replace this, I might as well do the clutch as well right? I mean, I have LT's so I only wana go in once.... u know?
09-11-2010, 07:40 PM
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TOB is cheap but since you have a stock clutch and LTs I would do everything at once. Having LTs make it a PITA to get to the tranny if you can't slip the tranny out with the passenger side LT in.
I had a bad TOB for awhile when I bought my car and ran it like that for a while. If it really is the TOB making the chatter noise I think you will be fine but I wouldn't wait until the thing shatters into a million pieces to replace it.
I had a bad TOB for awhile when I bought my car and ran it like that for a while. If it really is the TOB making the chatter noise I think you will be fine but I wouldn't wait until the thing shatters into a million pieces to replace it.
09-11-2010, 08:11 PM
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TOB is cheap but since you have a stock clutch and LTs I would do everything at once. Having LTs make it a PITA to get to the tranny if you can't slip the tranny out with the passenger side LT in.
I had a bad TOB for awhile when I bought my car and ran it like that for a while. If it really is the TOB making the chatter noise I think you will be fine but I wouldn't wait until the thing shatters into a million pieces to replace it.
I had a bad TOB for awhile when I bought my car and ran it like that for a while. If it really is the TOB making the chatter noise I think you will be fine but I wouldn't wait until the thing shatters into a million pieces to replace it.
So, check list will be:
New TOB
Clutch
Flywheel
anything else I am missing?