Another tranny noise problem. Advice?
10-26-04, 09:14 PM
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Another tranny noise problem. Advice?
I must appologize for digging up a topic that probably has been bought up more than a few times, but I have a terrible noise in my transmission. I have an ACT clutch, pressure plate and a lightened flywheeel. A few months ago my clutch fork broke off entirely and my throw-out bearing seized up (that was a disaster in itself).
Anyway I had Corksport repair the problem and then my car started to make the bolts and nuts (and maybe a tennis shoe) in a dryer sound with the car in neutral with the clutch up (engaged). When the car is hot you can hear it from a good 40' away. I push the clutch in to the floor (disengage) and it goes away. Its fairly rhythmic, in a tumbling kind of way. No noise in gear. I took the car back to Corksport thinking that something was wrong with their work and they told me that the whole transmission and diff had to be rebuilt. They sent the tranny to Rob at Pineapple racing to have it rebuilt and then rebuilt the differential. Corksport put it all back together and still I have the noise just as it was before after $2300.
A couple days ago I also got locked out of 1st and nearly 2nd gear for 10 miles. I parked the car and the next day it went into gear just fine. I brought it back to Corksport after telling them that they have fixed everything except what I brought it in for. They called Rob, who rebuilt the tranny and tells them that it sounds like the gears are just worn out and getting backlash and that I may need a new gear assembly. If the gears were worn shouldn't that have been addressed before reassembly? Now I don't have many options.
I'm not saying anything bad about Corksport or Pineapple racing. Both shops go out of their way with their work and I have been fairly pleased working with them.
My car has been in the shop too many times for the same stupid transmission and I just want to find out what’s wrong with it so that its back to like-new condition. I've read that many members have the same sounds/symptoms. From what I've read it sounds like an input shaft tumbling around and not gear backlash. I would think gear backlash would be impossible without the car in gear.
What do you think? Should I make them go back through the transmission after sinking so much money or is it an unfixable problem? I tend to think that any problem should be fixable. Just looking for some advice from someone wiser than myself (I'm not so wise).
Anyway I had Corksport repair the problem and then my car started to make the bolts and nuts (and maybe a tennis shoe) in a dryer sound with the car in neutral with the clutch up (engaged). When the car is hot you can hear it from a good 40' away. I push the clutch in to the floor (disengage) and it goes away. Its fairly rhythmic, in a tumbling kind of way. No noise in gear. I took the car back to Corksport thinking that something was wrong with their work and they told me that the whole transmission and diff had to be rebuilt. They sent the tranny to Rob at Pineapple racing to have it rebuilt and then rebuilt the differential. Corksport put it all back together and still I have the noise just as it was before after $2300.
A couple days ago I also got locked out of 1st and nearly 2nd gear for 10 miles. I parked the car and the next day it went into gear just fine. I brought it back to Corksport after telling them that they have fixed everything except what I brought it in for. They called Rob, who rebuilt the tranny and tells them that it sounds like the gears are just worn out and getting backlash and that I may need a new gear assembly. If the gears were worn shouldn't that have been addressed before reassembly? Now I don't have many options.
I'm not saying anything bad about Corksport or Pineapple racing. Both shops go out of their way with their work and I have been fairly pleased working with them.
My car has been in the shop too many times for the same stupid transmission and I just want to find out what’s wrong with it so that its back to like-new condition. I've read that many members have the same sounds/symptoms. From what I've read it sounds like an input shaft tumbling around and not gear backlash. I would think gear backlash would be impossible without the car in gear.
What do you think? Should I make them go back through the transmission after sinking so much money or is it an unfixable problem? I tend to think that any problem should be fixable. Just looking for some advice from someone wiser than myself (I'm not so wise).
11-04-04, 10:51 PM
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Does anyone have an opinion on this? I'm hurting for answers. Seems to me that either my input shaft bearing or pilot bearing are out. Maybe even both bearings if I'm getting locked out of gear. Both of which should have been replaced in a rebuild.
Is it at all possible that there is another problem that has these symptoms?
Is it at all possible that there is another problem that has these symptoms?
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As you know the input shaft stop turning when you push the clutch in, so you have mentioned the most obvious sources. The front barring is a likely problem but it is passively connected to other parts even with the shifter in neutral. Anyway you look at it the transmission likely needs to come out. If you lost 1st and 2nd gears I would think thats in line with removing the transmission. Sorry to here the trouble.
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