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In message <352398B9.423AB568@poboxes.com> Gerard writes:

> Maybe. Yesterday I looked incredibly strange to the neighbours. There
> I was, the dash under the driver's side off, relays exposed, hood open,
> engine running and me with a medical stethoscope listening to the beat
> of the relays. Often my car puts out that wobbly rumbling sound that
> sounds like a bearing or something. This is heard all the
> way through the car. I can hear it in the car, in the engine bay and
> at the rear of the car, middle of the car, everywhere. Putting my ear
> to the bodywork brings the sound out well.

Centre Torsen, old clutch, louder after a spirited drive?

Clutch thrust bearing.  Don't worry about it.  For at least a year,
I believed that all Torsens rattled - then I swapped the clutch out.

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 Phil Payne
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