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

[HardHead93]

I finally split the tranny from the engine and replaced the throwout bearing. Man, that was a pain in the butt! Once I got the throwout bearing out I immediately knew it was the problem. The old bearing sounded like sandpaper when I spun it while the new one was quiet. I thought the bearing failed due to lack of grease but that was not the case because there was plenty of grease on the part. It was just a crappy bearing. Like I said before, this is a throwout bearing that came with my SPEC stage 2 clutch kit that I installed about a year ago. Here is a picture of the old bearing and new one side by side.


To get to the throwout bearing I had to suspend the motor in the engine bay with an engine bar. Then drop the sub-frame to give me space to separate the tranny from the block. Then I was able to squeeze my hand in the belt housing to remove the throwout bearing with the shifter fork. I then replaced the throwout bearing and added some high temp auto grease. Below is a picture of the 3sgte hanging in the engine bay.

And a close up of the tranny split from the motor.


This post has been edited by HardHead93: Dec 27, 2016 - 1:57 AM