Dahh... Oops

[lil_mickey]

I think I found my rattle from between the engine and tranny

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[thedeadwalk]

nice one!!

[JonnyDe]

nah cant be! keep searching

[delcowizzid]

yeah that'l do it LOL happens quite a bit

[lil_mickey]

yeah that'l do it LOL happens quite a bit

Realy? what causes it?

[markER717]

So THATS what that noise was haha.

[Zeussy]

lol, a mate had that happen in his VN, (shift kitted auto) his I'm fairly confident to say was from the harsher shifts, and the thrashing it copped through out its life.

But if your's is a standard box, might just be metal fatigue..?
Or do you do many neutral-drives... lmao,

[lil_mickey]

2500rpm hi-stall

back to stock

[lil_mickey]

And yes Mark, thst why i couldn't make it last night... how did the meet go last night?

[maginoodle]

had a vr in not long ago with the same problem. the bell housing had a crack in it as well. the previous owner said the rattle came into it about a fortnight after the box tranny was installed, so i think they had trouble getting the tranny in and caused the crack in the bell housing and the crack in the flex plate.

[lil_mickey]

I no this is an old post, but what can cause this?

2nd one in 2 months, i will get some pics tomorrow, although they will look the same but without blue paint,

but the exact same thing has happened with a different torque converter in the same car.

and this time i know everything lined up going together

really annoying!!!

[lil_mickey]

nobody has any ideas?
I don't want to put it all together just to be doing the same thing in a months time...

[STEALTHY™]

I had one go in my car. Stock sludgeomatic (no shift kit)

Can't tell you what causes it, but i solved the problem by converting to manual. Never had an issue again

[Zeussy]

LOL, STEALTHY is on the money, just give it a 5 speed conversion... No more worries


But if thats outta the question, maybe its just a coincidence that the second one failed as well?
No more shift kit/stally? No neutral - drives? lol,
Maybe just metal fatigue? from all the vibrations that the motor puts off over the years...
Is there a fair bit of vibrations coming off the motor when it idles/free revs?
Crank might be moving a little and it catching the flex plate on the back of the block?

Just stabbing in the dark here?

Try find an Auto gearbox shop, and get them to order you in a new one, or if you can get a heavy duty on for not much more, try that?
Sorry couldn't be more helpful, once my mate changed gearboxs in his for a stock one, and put a secondhand flex plate in the problem wasn't heard from again...

[spokkeh]

Nothing wrong with that at all mate!

[Trav Man]

Gee god that would have interesting if it had let go completely and I havn't seen that happen for a while

Trav Man

[lil_mickey]

well there is a new one going in today,
i hope this is the last time the engine comes out this year... lol