[s-cars] Throw-out bearing

[Gabriel Caldwell]

A few people have run like this for many thousands of miles.  You are
not really hurting anything.  You just have a whiny bearing.  The repair
will cost you $30 if you take the tranny out yourself.  I just removed
the AT from my 90 last night to replace some seals. A $500 job is going
to cost me about $10.

Gabriel Caldwell

 

-----Original Message-----
From: JR [mailto:urs4 at magnaspeed.net] 
Sent: August 11, 2004 11:43 AM
To: Gabriel Caldwell
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Throw-out bearing

That's what I've been doing.  The whiny noise sounds horrible.  Any 
noise like that coming from the transmission makes my wallet hurt so 
I've been not engine braking hard and rev matching for now.  Is it 
hurting anything besides the bearing when I hear the noise?  If I don't 
baby it will I ruin anything else or will I just need to replace the 
clutch/bearing sooner?

Thanks,

JR



Gabriel Caldwell wrote:

>Yup a couple listers have that problem.  What is involved is removing
>the transmission and replacing the bearing.  The bearing itself is not
>very expensive.  I would suggest rev matching until your clutch wears
>out and the tranny needs to come out anyway, or you get the urge to put
>in a 6-speed.
>
>Gabriel Caldwell
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: JR [mailto:urs4 at magnaspeed.net] 
>Sent: August 11, 2004 11:10 AM
>To: S-CAR LIST
>Subject: [s-cars] Throw-out bearing
>
>I have a whine coming from my drive line only upon down shifting/engine

>braking and not all the time.  The harder I engine brake the more
likely
>
>the sound will occur and the louder it will be.  It has been suggested 
>that this can be a bad throw-out bearing.  What is involved in
repairing
>
>a throw-out bearing?
>
>Thanks,
>
>JR
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