TO Bearing

[Crai-zy horse]

My car has been making noise for a while that sounds like a loose belt when the clutch is out, so I'm assuming its the throw-out bearing. I'm guessing it should be replaced, though I have taken it to the shop and asked them to look into the noise and both times they said it was fine. I'm just wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how I should fix it.

 

[GREENBIOCH]

Basically you need to replace the bearing to make the squeel go away, and generally since your there you should just do the clutch as well.

I did this but it only took about 2 weeks before the damn bearing was squeeling again, I'm just too lazy to drop the tranny again for just a bearing.


although I have noticed that since I got an adj clutch cable I adjusted out the squeel a bit although the slack in the clutch is pretty much null now. my clutch will probably go earlier than I would think but whatever its better than that horrible squeel.

 

[94 3.8l stang]

They will say that until its too late. Go to a tranny shop and have them stethascope your tranny too before its too late. Mine was doing that, assumed it was just a throw out bearing, well driving down the interstate a tranny bearing went out and it wasn't pretty. Go get it checked out soon, because my tranny could have been salvagable, but the bearing demolished it. $900.00 bill after that too.

 

[SpectorV]

its VERY VERY wise to resurface the flywheel, replace the pressure plate and clutch disk, fork arm, pilot bearing, thrwo out bearing, inspect the bearing retainer, pivot ball stud and all taht while you are at it, these are very cheap items.... i just had my throw out bearing replaced and it went out 3 more times in a year... i finally told ford i had enough and made them replace everything and its been fine since.

 

[GREENBIOCH]

its VERY VERY wise to resurface the flywheel, replace the pressure plate and clutch disk, fork arm, pilot bearing, thrwo out bearing, inspect the bearing retainer, pivot ball stud and all taht while you are at it, these are very cheap items.... i just had my throw out bearing replaced and it went out 3 more times in a year... i finally told ford i had enough and made them replace everything and its been fine since.

Yeah I plan on getting around to this someday when I have some time.

 

[Crai-zy horse]

its VERY VERY wise to resurface the flywheel, replace the pressure plate and clutch disk, fork arm, pilot bearing, thrwo out bearing, inspect the bearing retainer, pivot ball stud and all taht while you are at it, these are very cheap items.... i just had my throw out bearing replaced and it went out 3 more times in a year... i finally told ford i had enough and made them replace everything and its been fine since.

How much did that cost you?

 

[SpectorV]

nothing ford did it, but i added up all new parts and it came to 150-200 bucks for everything replaced.

www.gefracing.com is a ford dealer thats in georgia very good prices.

 

[GREENBIOCH]

The most expensive part of that would be the labour, as Spector said, the parts themselves are like little 20 to 30 dollar parts, add them up its probably a couple hundred, but labour I could see being as a guess ~$400, and if you add the clutch in there your probably gonna be at about ~$800-1000.

 

[SpectorV]

well clutch install should be 200 give or take 50 bucks maybe 300~ but no more, a clutch is not expensive, you can get an oem for under 200 EASY.