Nasty sound when the clutch is pressed.. [Video]

[JStrateger]

I went to drive up the street a few minutes ago and I noticed a loud sound coming from the tranny when I pressed my clutch pedal, It's also really hard to get in gear. It's kind of hard to describe a sound so I made a video:

YouTube - 4G63 - Bad Clutch Fork? TOB?

Hopefully someone can give me some insight as to what it might be before I tear my tranny off tomorrow. I'm thinking it's my clutch fork because the clutch, pressure plate and TOB are all new with less than 2000 miles on them. I also just replaced the clutch slave cylinder last weekend, which made my clutch a lot stiffer.

 

[rush2252]

bad throw out bearing. Dont keep driving it. It will eventually eat away the fingers on the pressure plate.

 

[JStrateger]

Damn, I had a feeling someone would say that. Why did it go out so soon? I'm pretty sure I installed it right; maybe the shitty bearing I bought off ebay?

 

[rush2252]

did you just install the clutch? if you did it may just be the shitty design. I put one from ebay in my NT and it made racket for awhile then it quit. IF its an older one then it might be trashed.

 

[Lofty]

Best bet with TOBs is to go with OEM, anything aftermarket will fail.

 

[JStrateger]

did you just install the clutch? if you did it may just be the shitty design. I put one from ebay in my NT and it made racket for awhile then it quit. IF its an older one then it might be trashed.

Yeah, I put it in about 2000 miles ago but this is the first problem I've had with it. I might just order a new clutch kit, I'm not sleeping well tonight.

Best bet with TOBs is to go with OEM, anything aftermarket will fail.

Oh, totally, if it's my TOB, lesson learned. This is gonna be a pain in the ass, been searching around and looks like I should probably look into replacing my clutch fork and pivot ball as well.

Thanks for the quick replies.

 

[JStrateger]

Just finished pulling the motor and it was the throw out bearing. Thanks guys, gonna replace the motor mounts and fix my oil leaks while I have it outta the car. I only took this picture which looked kind of cool; check it out:

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[JStrateger]

I discovered what was making the sound, I adjusted my clutch pedal to travel it's maximum distance and my pressure plate fingers were being pushed in too much and grinding on the clutch disc springs.

I didn't think this could happen but now I do. I thought I'd share the solution to my problem for searching purposes.