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jlaird

jlaird

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At idle when I shove the clutch in a get a noise like sheet metal rubbing? Very slight.

Any ideas.
 
How new is the T/O bearing? If the face is worn close to the metal a metallic noise is possible. Another source would be loose/weak springs.
 
Neither have more than 1000 or 2000 miles on them. Guess I best look closely on next pull.
 
carbon one.
 
I have had carbon ones wear out very rapidly (poor manufacturing??)and I have also had them last for years! I have only used the roller bearing once, but it did last for a very long time (made one heck of a racket when it did finally fail!).
 
Will look very closly at that when I pull the engine next week.
 
I've had a carbon fail in a short amount of time of my own fault I must have not matched things up quite sqaure or there was something on the face. Anyway it failed in on week. When I pulled it down I found a chunk missing and the thing loose in the backing. It sounded horrid when in neutral clutch released.
 
Something to check is the length of your clutch cover bolts. Sometimes if you have some with just a little too much length, they will protrude through the flywheel and scrap on the oil pump cover. Way too long and they can even stop the engine from starting. Guess how I know? When the flywheel is pushed forward with the clutch release bearing engagement, assuming a few thousandths thrust clearance, the tips of the bolt just scrap the cover. A good scraping is quite a squealing sound.

HTH,
Mike Miller
 
there has been discussion in other places about "new" T.O. bearings as not having enough carbon. They re being made too thin and don't work well for very long. Original ones have been know to last for years and years but NEW ones only for WEEKS.

Just a caveat.
 
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