Okay...
My car makes a wonderful new mechanical noise.
On startup: no noise
Warm idle: noise comes alive
Driving: noise quite hearable
Oil pressure is good through all conditions.
Now, when clutch pedal is pressed the noise disappears.
So a friend and I narrowed it down to thrust washers (hoping not), or a
problem in the clutch itself.
I pushed rearward on the crank and had him press the clutch pedal, and a
noticeable movement was felt through the hand.. but very minuet, but
definitely feelable.
This noise sounds as if you were to tie a metal washer around a string and
spin it around in a circle with the washer hitting metal as it travels
around. It isn't a steady noise, it has a random pattern... but it is
steady in the fact that it is continuous.
The problem arose as I was accelerating away from a stop, after about
15miles of driving directly before without any noise. As I was leaving the
stop sign at about 2000rpm this noise appeared.
I'm hoping this is a clutch problem... as I'll be able to rip it all apart
this weekend.
Thanks!
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Kai Radicke -- kai@radiohead.net
1966 MGB -- Forsale! $500 -- major (complete) project. near Philadelphia
PA
1974 Triumph TR6 -- Mechanical woes that are forcing the sale of the MGB.
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