As most of you know, I have the stage 3 clutchmaster clutch and flywheel in my car. Last night my car was making a noise similar to the noise a baseball card makes in the spoke of a bicycle. I put it in 2nd gear and got on it. All of a sudden boom!!..loud rattling noise. I pulled over.

The car only makes the sound when the clutch is engaged and the transmission is turning. At idle with the clutch pedal in, it does not make any noise. As soon as you release the clutch in neutral, it sounds like BBs inside of a tin can rattling around. My first guess is the input shaft to the transmission is broken. The 2nd and hopeful guess is its a bearing on the clutch or a problem with the clutch. I got the car towed to Acura and they havent called me back yet. It is 28k miles out of warranty . Any guesses?

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keep us updated.. what about your stock internals?

I'm sure you'll get things worked out.. you're just getting stressed. Hate to see you part your car out over this especially with all your mods & money spent on it..

Hopefully it's just a burned out clutch. Keep your head up!

 

my guess is broken finger on the pressure plate- had that happen to me before.
Unless Gen3 has some trippy design pp!

 

my local dealership now has new policies not allowing them to work on modified cars..i have had them work on the last 2 acuras i have owned and I used to work there. they are refusing to even take a look at the car.

 

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This is the cheapest one I found online, David. Good luck.

 

my guess is your differential went...

 

i sent him an email on it

 

From what you describe, I would guess a bearing IN the transmission.

If it were the throwout bearing, that should make MORE noise when you step on the clutch.

If you hear the noise with the car in nuetral and clutch pedal out (clutch engaged) then it's possibly the bearing on the input shaft or a countershaft bearing(s).

Don't think it would be differential if it makes the noise with the car sitting still (in nuetral - think you said it did it even then).

IOW transmission will need to come out and be "overhauled".

AS always, YMMV. <g>

 

i think it is a bearing or a broken mainshaft on the trans.

 

Before it broke, did the sound vary with road speed, engine speed or did it depend on what gear you were in?

 

it varied upon speed not rpms

 

so i still do not have a car to drive!!! my turbo 240 needs a new turbo and my TL needs a tranny. I think I will have it fixed by the first of the year. The price you pay for having 2 boosted cars

 

Youre not kidding! That's why my TL stays stock. I learned my lesson although it took me until I was 29 to finally realize the 25yr old 600rwhp car is always going to break something and may not be the best DD.

 

boosted tl in desperate need of a transplant... too bad Im auto......

 

so trans is making a weird noise and you decide to get on it?

WTF? are you dumb? As soon as the car started making that noise was the time to pull it over.......you got exactly what you deserved.......and it will end up costing you a lot more to fix.......

 

it was going to happen anyways...you can mend metal back together. it broke a mile away from my house instead of going on a mountain run or something.

 

so i bought a trany off of ebay for $550. A local shop is doing the install for $630. I ordered new pilot and throw out bearings along with some motul brake fluid. That cost around $150. Next tranny will be babied for sure.

 

^^^ so is the clutch and flywheel combo the culprit of ur dead tranny??

 

i think the combination of abuse and an agressive clutch...it should be fixed by this weekend or next week sometime...

 

type-s09 TL is alive again!!! got the new trans...car drives beautifully!

 

Good to hear dude!

 

glad to hear, ive been easy on mine as well. dont want any tranny failure...

 

Good to hear bro!!

 

thanks...tensioner is messing up now and the master cylinder doesnt want to disengage the clutch! it was doing that before the tranny problem though.