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Car Trouble Symptoms: Growling or grating clutch noise is heard when your car clutch pedal is fully depressed.

Car problem diagnosis: When your car clutch pedal is fully depressed, throwout bearing is forces to press against the pressure plate by a clutch linkage. When these happened the pressure plate moves from the clutch disc in turn will disengage the clutch. If a clutch pedal is fully depressed the throwout bearing will continue to rotate, since the throwout bearing rotates it will then produce a noise if the bearing is faulty. The noise that produced by these faulty bearing is a growling or grating clutch noise that you have heard.

Auto diagnose problem: Faulty Throwout Bearing

All about Auto Zone advice: Transmission is very complex parts, there is no other way to fixed the problem rather than bringing your car to a reputable auto repair shop and ask the mechanic to inspect the transmission assembly, probably the mechanic will opened up the transmission assembly to better examined what causes the problem. This kind of work can cost you a lot, however if your car is covered by a warranty no need to worry about, if not then you’ll have to shop around for a cheaper repair shop but off course does a good quality job.

Transmission problems symptom: Coming from a stop, the car shakes when the clutch pedal is released for manual transmission.

Car problem diagnosis: Manual transmission is a very complex part, without actual inspection of the transmission by a professional it is very difficult to determine what the exact cause of the problem is. However, based the actual experience we can only determine the possible cause of the problem. This kind of problem is possibly cause by a loose engine/transmission bolts or a faulty clutch disc.

Engine/transmission bolts is the one that keeps the engine and the transmission to become stable while connected with each other, when one of the bolt is loose the transmission will vibrates, the vibration is enough to be noticeable and cause the entire car to shake while the clutch engage from a stop.

Same as above case when the clutch disc is faulty, it can cause the entire car to shake. As you may know when the clutch is released, the clutch will be pressed against the flywheel that is connected on the engine to allow the transfer of engine power to the transmission. If the clutch is faulty it can cause uneven contact with the flywheel, in this case vibration will occur between the two parts which is severe enough to be felt from the entire car.

Auto diagnose cause: Loose engine/transmission bolts or faulty clutch disc

All about auto zone advice: To fix the problem there are no other option but to bring the car to a reputable auto repair shop that specialized in manual transmission and ask the mechanic to inspect the transmission assembly to determined the exact cause of the problem.

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Transmission problems symptoms: When you’re shifting from one particular gear the transmission produces noise.

Car problem diagnosis: A noise that is noticeable when shifting in one particular gear is an indication of gear related problem. Usually this kind of problem is cause by either a worn out gear or a worn bearing. Now, how to determine which of the two is the culprit?

One way of checking which of the two is causing the noise while shifting is to drive the car in an incline road in a gear position where the noise is heard, if the noise is much worst in an inclined road then the problem is a worn bearing, however if the noise is the same or less than the noise while driving on a flat road, this indicates a problem on the gear, specifically the gear teeth is badly worn.

Auto diagnose caused: Worn bearing or worn gear teeth inside the transmission.

All about auto zone advice: With this kind of problem you do not have any option but to bring the car to a reputable auto repair shop that specialized in manual transmission and ask the mechanic to inspect the problem parts. Transmission is very complex that is why it is very difficult to determine the real problem without examining the actual parts. A qualified mechanic must open the transmission to determine the exact cause of the problem, with this kind of work expect an expensive payment to fix the problem.

Tags : transmission, clutch, automotive