Re: 5kQT squealing

["Robert Myers" <rmyers@inetone.net>]

If the clutch is bad it's bucks.  But perhaps not as many bucks as you are
led to believe.  When I bought my car it had a bad rear main seal.  The oil
leaking had saturated the clutch plate.  The entire job cost well under
$800.  Parts from Linda ($480?) and local service ($250).

At 10:08 PM 9/1/97 GMT, you wrote:
>In message <3.0.1.32.19970901163927.007aaac0@pop.radix.net> Harley Cascio
writes:
>
>> Whew!! Tried it, and the noise doesn't change.  There is something new
>> though:  now the car does it only for about 8-10 seconds after starting,
>> then stops.  Once the noise has stopped at idle in neutral, it only comes
>> back when the clutch is depressed, no other time.  And, got the kid next
>> door to help ( 8 years old), when the clutch is on, and the noise on,
>> squealing is in the front of the car, not the middle or rear.
>
>Well, believe me, if you stand in front of an running engine with either
>a crankshaft seal or a clutch thrust bearing squealing, you would
>swear on your mother's grave that the noise comes from the front of the
>engine.  BTDT.
>
>There's a classic trick with the belts - apply some washing up liquid,
>let it run, and apply some water.
>
>Otherwise, your noise is a clutch noise (one of several) and it's $$$.
>
>--
> Phil Payne
> phil@isham-research.demon.co.uk
> Phone: +44 385302803  Fax: +44 1536723021  CIS: 100012,1660
>
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   Bob
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