Getrag noise?

[Smokey 01]

My transmission or clutch has made a weird noise ever since I bought the truck. It only does it when it is hot and idling in neutral. I thought me rebuild would fix it but it didn't and now it's starting to bother me. The rebuild quieted it down. Does anyone else have this noise?

 

[BJMarshall]

I have been told that much of this noise can be blamed on the clutch. I know mine got louder when I put the solid hub clutch in mine. Did you put in a new clutch when you did the transmission?

 

[TKingsbury]

Yes, mine makes noise. Especially when idling in neutral after towing. Sometimes it will go away if I push the pedal once or twice. It's a little disconcerting having a banging type racket coming from your truck when you're a couple hundred miles from home. I've just kinda accepted it as "normal?". If it breaks, I'll fix it.

Travis. .

 

[DieselBuzz]

I thought my clutch was shot too

For me it turned out to be the throw out bearing that was shot not the clutch. The noise was intermittent, it happened mostly when I shifted or was stopped with the truck idling. I would pump the clutch and sometimes it would stop the noise. I thought my truck was out of control. I bought a standard Luk kit and yanked the engine, (I know most people would pull the xcase and the transmission, I've never done that but I had pulled the motor, I went with what I knew. ) I was mad because there was plenty of the original clutch left. This is my best guess at your problem. I have not looked for just a throw out bearing (I wish I did) but I would imagine you can find it somewhere.

Good luck with it.

Art

 

[GIT-R-DONE]

My old truck did the same thing, it too, was the throw out bearing. I had my getrag rebuilt many years ago and had the throw out bearing replaced. It wasn't until after then that it made the noise. I had them take out the trans and install another one and it didn't make the noise after that.

 

[Smokey 01]

I put a new throwout bearing and pilot bearing in while it was out, so I don't think thats it.

 

[ARhine]

Mine has been doing the same noise as described above, did it once last night. Push the clutch once again and it stopped.



Quad4x4.com has several pilot bearings on there, and they recommend having the flywheel machined for a fancier bearing. Anybody think that is really necessary?

 

[Paychk]

I view the pilot bearing as a must, BUT I'm the type I want to do a job one time. So I tend to overbuild/repair that way I won't have to deal with it for another 250,000 miles.

 

[The patriot]

My Dad's truck has done this for about 75 K miles. (1990 D350 CTD)

It bothers the hell out of me, but if you could learn to live with it (assuming it's the same noise) it should be good to go. His is still orig in the cluch dept @ 160 K miles +.

As a side note, dad has never really pulled anything heavy with his truck. YMMV.

Eric

 

[GIT-R-DONE]

I put a new throwout bearing and pilot bearing in while it was out, so I don't think thats it.

I cant say for sure that is your problem... ... but the new one they installed in mine was already bad, it made mine even worse noise, so I made them change it again and problem was fixed.