batmobile2005

Hey guys,

I did a quick search and didn't find anything related to this, but when the car (manual trans) is cold, theres a funny noise coming from underneath. I don't want to be presumptuous and definitely say its coming from the tranny, but it sounds like its coming from there. I would describe the sound almost like a metal brush on some sheet metal, and it goes away when I push in on the clutch.

Funky thing too, when the car warms up, the sound is pretty much gone. I saw some threads saying its the metal plate between the housing of the tranny, and I shimmed it with some rubber, but that didn't make the noise go away, it just....changed it really. Before I shimmed it, the noise would be most prominent around 1500 RPM and then again around 2000 RPM, especially if you punched it. Now the noise is a lot more tame with the rubber shims, but if you punch it, the noise comes back with a vengeance, again until the car warms up.

I'm at my wits end as to what it is, and I'm at school now so I have limited access to tools/diagnostics unfortunately. Is it in the transmission, is it the exhaust heat shields? I just find it odd that it pretty much goes away as soon as the car is warmed up. I really appreciate any advice, thanks in advance.

batmobile2005

bump.

Rudolph Hucker

these manual boxes are as crude as hell..
both my manuals sounded like an old truck...tiss the way they are dude

Nuke

There's a TSB for the metal plate that you refer to but I believe the fix in the TSB required dropping the tranny if I'm not mistaken.

If the sound is more of a metal "scraping" sound, then try torquing down all of the exhaust system pipe joint clamps about 1/4 to 1/2 turn.