I had a very similar noise last week that I finally decided was mostly the
exhaust banging against the frame. Before you decide it's engine or
clutch related, put the car in neutral and run the engine at 3000 rpms
momentarily. See if you can isolate the noise then. If it exists then,
I'd say it's not the clutch but something rattling.
John Middlesworth
1966 TR4A
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Kai Radicke wrote:
>
> 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!
>
> --
> 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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