Thread: clutch/gearbox conundrum

try 4th.

I suspect you may have a bearing or syncro going in the box.

Originally Posted by clankilpatrick

Good evening All,
have just spent an hour trawling through this forum and the good oil but haven't had any luck so will throw a question out to the landy community.
I have just recently been getting an intermittant grinding/growling type noise whenever I push the clutch in and use the brake to coast to a stop, say at a stop sign. If a take the vehicle out of gear, the noise remains until I lift my foot off the clutch and it then stops. This generally happens in third gear, but has happened in 2nd. It doesn't happen all of the time either. To try and remedy this I just readjusted the clutch last weekend according to the workshop manual specs as I had replaced the master cylinder not too long ago but the noise still remains. Today as I was just pulling into home I had trouble finding a gear as I was changing down and it made a bit of a noise but then everything seemed to sort itself out again. The clutch is about 2 1/2 years old and with less then 100,000 kms on it and is a heavy duty exedy model.
Any help/ideas will as always be gratefully recieved.
Thanks everyone
Dave

Dave,

It could possibly be the thrust bearing and carrier, the Heavy duty Exedy clutch may have a lot higher clamping force, therefore more load on the thrust bearing causing earlier failure. If you are coasting in gear or in neutral with foot OFF the clutch, doeas Any noise appear? Or only when foot ON the clutch?

JC