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ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Suzuki 4x4 Forum => Topic started by: Jookycola on December 13, 2006, 11:56:44 AM
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so my Tranny makes a winding noise in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gear. I changed the fluid and it's still noisy. I was told by people at work (we build race cars) that it sounds like the Throw-out bearing may be going. So a "clutch job" may be in my very near future.
I'm just wondering what you all have paid for a clutch job. just to gauge how hard i'm going to get hit.
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It's your trans bearings.
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how hard is it to change the tranny bearings?
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If it's fairly quiet in 4th, it would be the tranny bearings. Try to find a good used or rebuilt if you can't rebuild. Changing out a transmission/changing a clutch is pretty easy on a sammy. Give youself a good day or two if you've never done one. You should be able to do one in less than 8 hours. That allows for dropping shafts, and exhaust and cleanning everything up. You may encounter some rusty bolts on the exhaust like I did. I could probably do a full swap now in less than 4 hours. Of course I'm kind of slow at it (I think.)
Another thing you might try (it helped mine) is throw in a quart or so of lucas. Don't use the lucas for trannys because I think it says for automatics. I used the same stuff you use in the engine. It says on the bottle it's for manual transmissions (in the fine print). It quieted mine down quite a bit but I think it may have made it harder to shift when the tranny was cold.
-Adam
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Its the bottom lower bearing. Its not that difficult. If you can put a 4to1 in the Tcase this will be easier. The bearing is around $20 from suzuki. If you continue to drive it it will take out other bearings.
Mike