Looks like a Cars and Coffee crowd. I don't even know what the new exotics are, and don't care. I end up talking with the air cold VW guys instead. They need a "work on your own car" section.
This is the case. The innocent member still may not know what happened if they don't visit the site. This is a reminder to ALWAYS USE A STRONG PASSWORD for your accounts. The email address and password were changed the day the ad was posted.
Dan
I'm sure there's diagrams out there but it would be the basics. 1:1 gearing (4th gear in this case) goes straight through the gearbox. All other gears are routed through the lay shaft. Lay shaft bearings seem to make noise more often than the main shaft bearings on the boxes I've had.
Thank you. This helps a lot. This would point towards the transmission internals then. Test one more thing... go through the gears and check if the noise goes away completely in fourth gear.
Wow, the "clutch engaged" term has been misused about ten times in this thread.
Let's start over...
1) the noise occurs AT IDLE. This has to be the TO bearing or pilot bearing. They work in tandem, and if the car is not moving and the engine is running they are in use.
2) noise goes...
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