Noise

[chickenmanq]

So I was just listening to the truck idle today.  And I'm in the driveway, and I hear a slight clunking noise, like a soft object going down a flight of stairs.  So I crawl under the truck, and sure enough, it's coming from the tranny.

So I feel the tranny, and can actually feel vibrations coming from the bellhousing when I hear the clunk.

It sounds like a throwout bearing, but since I just did the clutch/ press.plate/TO bearing, and all that about 5000 miles ago, I'm not sure what to think.  I've run it hard up and down to PHX a couple of times since I did the clutch job.  If the input shaft had gotten bent, I'm sure the tranny would have grenaded by now.  Just thinking about that throwout bearing, though.

Any thoughts?

[S13Grl]

You're right, you wouldn't have a tranny had it been an input shaft. Are you sure you did everything right when you replaced the clutch, plate, and the bearing? Did someone else do it for you?

[chickenmanq]

Yeah, I did it myself.  Pressed on the TO bearing, put in new pressure plate/ clutch/ pilot bearing, etc.  I suppose it could just make that noise.  It's not audible from inside the cab, and it hasn't been doing anything out of the ordinary.

[S13Grl]

I really have very little experience being around and listening to the SOHC motor and tranny, but my tranny used to make weird noises and acted normally. I asked one of the techs at work to tell me what could the problem be, and they told me that it's a perfectly normal thing, reason being that the older they get, trannies tend to get noisy. So I let it be at that. The girl who drives my car now hasn't had any problems.

[chickenmanq]

Yeah, that's kinda what I'm thinking.  I decided to run the truck balls out after I did the clutch job, just to try and break something immediately, so I woud know what I did wrong.  There hasn't been anything going on with it, so I might just have to accept it as one of the truck's many quirks.

[S13Grl]

If you have any questions that you think only a tech can answer, definitely feel free to ask me, I'll ask one of the techs here at work to enlighten me again. Besides they seem to find it interesting that I ask them questions about cars all the time <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>.

[chickenmanq]

Yeah, show them the thread and ask away, that'd be cool.