Posted by Josh on Friday, May 07, 2004 at 1:47PM :
In Reply to: Re: Fly wheels posted by MoparNorm on Thursday, May 06, 2004 at 8:45PM :
The noise, when the engine is idling in neutral is a whirring/chatter (I think that the chatter is coming from the gears inside the box, because the clutch isn't fully disengaged and the gears really aren't spinning all that fast...). If you hold on the shifter inside the pickup, you can feel the gears spinning. Now if you push the clutch all the way to the floor. The noise will stop.
The noise I'm hearing is much more abnoxious on hot days, than it is on cold days, so it has something to do with expansion of components as well. When I noticed that the throwout bearing was crashing into the front of the transmission case, I also noticed that it looks as though the throwout bearing is just barely touching the top fork on the pressure plate as well. But if the engine and transmission are aligned (which I would assume if they bolted back together correctly) then that would mean that the throwout bearing fork is out of whack somewhere along the line??? Which is where all of my adjustment would go away...?? am I thinking along the right lines??
Now I do have the old clutch (pressure plate, and disc) and the old throwout bearing. I checked them against each other to make sure that they were the same before I bolted them on because, Napa and Carquest both got the combination wrong the first time...
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