Weird nosies??

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240KID~ZeRo.SiXtY
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Joined: Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:32 pm
Car: 1989 Nissan 240sx

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Aight I did a auto to manual swap but I tried to drie it out or whatever and it made a weird nosie like a high squeeking rat sound or something when I tried to put it into first......So i started driving home and my friends followed and it got a little better but it still makes the noise sometimes???? Could it be rust or something that needs to be broke in......I know your supposed to break in the transmission but that noise is annoying???? Please help???


NISTECH
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is the noise only really present when your first start to take off and the car hasent fully warmed up yet?

GBSilviaS15
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Joined: Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:10 pm

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Same exact problem as mine, I still haven't figured it out. Except mine was just the clutch installation, I didn't do a swap.

Hey Nistech, do you think bleeding the master cylinder maybe a problem? Because when the clutch is engaged and there is air in the master cylinder, it is not pushing the pressure plate all the way like it should be correct?

I haven't tried it yet, but I think I will, seeing as how Nissan is going to charge me $340 to "start" with. And then if they find something other than just the bad installation then they'll charge me even more. Repair shops are such a rip off it pisses me off. If it turns out to be just bleeding the master cylinder, I'm going to call them and be like "wow you guys are idiots, you're trying to charge people $340 to bleed their master cylinder"... LOL

Anyways yeah, sorry.

NISTECH
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Joined: Sun May 25, 2003 4:17 am

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Hey they have the same policy our dealer does. If it has already been worked on by someone else. we charge a little extra to figure out what someone else hosed up. Then get it back how it was suppose to be and move on to figuring out what the problem is. This policy is pretty much shared by many repair shops not just dealers. This policy has come about from years of experiance seeing some real bonehead mistakes that make it more difficult for a trained tech diagnose and fix. Dont take it personal. It kinda goes along the same lines of how a few shops/techs out there doing shady buisness practices and making those of us who try to do honest quality work look bad.

By reading what you got going on it is possible you have a hydrolic problem. how does your pedal sit when you release it? does it come all the way back up? But by reading your other post what you got going on sounds more like a noise and not a grind. Look at this logically for a sec. when the clutch is released from the flywheel the flywheel is spinning at I think you said 2000 rpms. but your trans when release slows way down probably no more then a couple hundred rpms. the only place at this point that 2 parts are moving at different speeds is where the pilot[input] shaft of the trans sticks into the crankshaft. if the pilot bushing is not all the way in it will drag against the front of the input shaft. now internally in the trans the counter shaft is still spinning at a low rate of speed and the gear your trying to engauge on the mainshaft is likley at a complete stop. so yes you could have grinding of the gear but the grind would be a low frequency noise verses the high pitch frequency of the high speed pilot bushing noise.

question here though this is something you need to have payed close attention to. if your are say accelerating in first gear then push the clutch in and only shift to nuetral. while still holding the clutch in does it make the noise?

GBSilviaS15
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Joined: Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:10 pm

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I'm going to make a video so you can diagnose this better, explaining only works to a certain extent. Hehe, video will be up in a couple days, thanks!


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