Transmission Whine Options

[HardHead93]

Within the last few days I started getting a whine from the car whenever I push the clutch in but it goes away as soon as the clutch is fully engaged or fully disenaged. It even happens if I ride the clutch without fully disengaging it (no, I do not ride my clutch normally). Everything is pointing to the throw out bearing. mad.gif CRAP! I just got the car all back together and now this. The sad thing is that this is a fairly new throwout bearing that came with my SPEC stage 2 clutch. If I had to guess, there is less than 2000 miles on this throwout bearing. Is the throwout bearing going bad or is it just going to make that noise because it is not an OEM part?

This post has been edited by HardHead93: Dec 11, 2016 - 5:33 PM

[slavie]

OEM bearings are very reasonably priced, so it makes sense. At least you'll know the quality control was better.

Aftermarket parts in general have let me down significantly more than OEM, and I've personally had particularly bad experience with Timken, so if I were in your shoes I'd just fork out the extra money for OEM.

At least you can just leave the gearbox hanging in the car, not have to drop it down for this job.

This makes me a tiny bit nervous about installing Exedy TOB in my 7g GT-S that came with the Exedy kit... I hope it lasts, cause this job is a lot more involved on a 7GC.