skylindrftr

I haven't started my car up to drive for over a month because of a ref ticket, but today I decided to let it warm up while I searched the garage for old computer parts. Anyhow, when it started up it immediately had a whine that I didn't recognize. At first I thought there might be no oil pressure, I check the gauge cluster and it was fine. So I finish warming it up, turn it off, and restart it, and it persists. It sounds like it is coming from the right side of the engine bay (oh by the way I have a red top sr20det 5 speed etc). Then I notice something, when I put the clutch pedal in, it stops whining, when I let it out, it starts again. This is only when it is in neutral. If I am in gear with the clutch pedal out, it does not whine. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

smelly240

u need to grease the throwout bearing and starter gear - those both can make that annoying whine...

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racepar1

If it goes away when the clutch is depressed it is NOT the throwout bearing (god I am sick of repeating that statement). That makes noise when the clutch pedal IS depressed. The starter gear WILL NOT make noise when the starter is not engaged and the fact that the noise goes away when the clutch is depressed tells me that the starter is not the problem. I have NEVER heard of ANYBODY greasing a starter gear either. The throwout bearing is used as the cause of every concievable noise by people who do not understand how it all works and the starter idea is just a shot in the dark. It sounds like your input bearing on the trans is a bit dry from sitting. Check the tranny level and drive it a bit and see if it goes away.

skylindrftr

Cool thanks for the info you guys, it's weird because I pretty recently changed the gear oil (Redline stuff) and it has sat longer than that and never made that noise, even when the seals were bad and leaking...

smelly240

oops - i thought it said it made it when he pushed the clutch -- :P

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skylindrftr

nope =) it's okay

jdm510

yup maybe after some miles it would wear in, the reason why it dont whine with the clutch out and in gear cuz the input shaft and flywheel are spinning together ??????

Oh and to edit racepar's post the Bushing not bearing is in the rear of the crank i belive right???

and you might wana pop the tranny out and clean and or replace it excessive wear and play on that shaft or bushing is not good

skylindrftr

Well it wasn't doing this when I was driving before, so after I get things settled in court, I will start driving it again and see what happens.

Forge_55b

most likely input shaft bearing......my friends eventually exploded when his started making those sounds

skylindrftr

Shiiit, that would be bad, I don't really want to pull the trans, I just had that sucker resealed, I guess I will baby it for now and see if it goes away, thanks for the input.

Forge_55b

sadly yeh, whatever it is, is likely anything that will require taking off the trans......not fun so up to you to just deal with it and hope its gone or a bearing going which shouldn't cause anything too bad to happen, but you never know i guess

jdm510

2hr job all you gotta doo is pull it out a lil bit lube it up and slip it back in
waiiiiit a min.......this sounds like what i was doing last nite

WaNa-DrIft

hmm sounds like your car is making a weird sound huh..id fix that if i was you...asap..lol i know nothing.....i just wanna throw my 2 cents in..heheh

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skylindrftr

Haha nice, well if I drive it around, should it work itself out? I admittedly know nothing about transmissions.

jdm510

Yes It Will Wear in BUT in Maybe 2000k or so miles after it having too much play, you could start to have real problems inside the tranny I would deffinately not try and just WEAR it in nothing good can come from that


take it to some one who knows whats up and wont rip you off if your in socal i know some good peps

flip3d

I get a whine too. It goes away when I press the clutch pedal.

Im using the needle pilot bearing. So where is this input shaft bearing?

jdm510

^^^ It's the same thing, you can run the needle bearing or the brass bushing. I his case sounds to me like his bushing was not greesed up properly and may have gummed up a lil in their????? but what do i know

skylindrftr

Okay so I drove the car yesterday just around the neighborhood (so as to minimize the chances of it getting impounded) and after a while the noise went away. I will drive it later and see if it's still the same...