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Originally Posted by wheelhaus
This just goes out to all owners patanoid about clutch and drivetrain noises...
If you're letting the clutch out rather quickly, especially at low speed or low rpm, you might just be hearing the clutch plates clap against the disk, or the gears clack as they're suddenly loaded, or the diff clunk slightly from a sudden load. All of the gear teeth meshing together have a very slight gap, called "backlash" that provides the tiniest amount of free movement and prevents the teeth from creating excessive friction. If you've ever built a RC car, setting gear mesh with a piece of paper squished between the pinion and spur are the common way of creating this gap; loading the gears back and forth by hand will make a typical subtle clacking noise.
A lot of mechanical sounds are perfectly normal, this is not a luxury car. Its nearly impossible to diagnose a mechanical sound over the internet with a billion interpretations of what it might be. In all likelyhood you've noticed a normal sound and are getting paranoid. "No other car I've owned has ever made this noise" probably because you just didn't notice it.
If a noise sounds awful, or abnormally loud, or really out of place, then please take a video with clear sound. A garage is a terrible place for recording because the mic picks up every echo, please do it outside and repeat the noise as often as possible to help us identify it.
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Exactly where i was going, but recording sounds is tough to do with our cars and those damn crickets, even worse if you have an exhaust. My TOB has been going bad for 3 months or so, but i can't get the sound on video.
The voices in my head keep telling me "today is the day", but it doesn't seem to want to die.
"Chasing speed with patience"