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Drove over 600 miles this weekend on my Loyale (92, spfi, FWD Sedan). Noticed when accelerating I got a sort of scratching noise, when I let off the gas it died down. Then when I got back near home I stopped at the store. When I came back out ot the car, I put it in gear and as soon as I let out theclutch from a stop, I hear almost a cymbal like sound as if two pieces of metal are being tapped together and the make a sound.

 

I suspect my throwout bearing has thrown up. Any other ideas? Just got back from the WCSS site with it yesterday. If I cannot get it fixed it will be me driving the Dodge Ram down to WCSS. The Throwout bearing was replaced 33K ago (about 5 years) when I had the engine out and put in a clutch and did the reseal.

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whoops missed that then the springs inside the clutch disck are getting loose and rattling

 

That could be. Northwest and JJ421 came over and I could not reproduce the ping. It would do the scratchy noise accelerating from 1700 to 2300 RPM in third. At any rate Northwet was sure it wasn't driveline noise.

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One of the cleanest, smoothest running EA82-series that I have been in. 

 

It was hard for either the OP or me to reproduce any noises, and even when he did I had to listen carefully (quieter than the sound of the heater blower on high) and I could not feel any accompanying vibrations.  My best guess is a resonant noise (as opposed to physical contact), either intake/exhaust flow or something loose vibrating.

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I had this same noise in my EA82 sedan. Turned out to be the header heatshield bushings (the small, half-moon pieces that isolate the pipe and the heatshield) had rusted and whenever the engine was under load, they would rattle like someone going nuts on a triangle. Wouldn't do it at idle, nor at high RPM under load. Only between 600 and 2000 RPM under load (in gear, taking off, ect). Drove me nuts until i just went under there and using the palm of my hand, bumped all the components until i got it to rattle.

 

I took off the heatshields (and welded up a small hole that the bushing had caused) and it's had zero problems for 10 months and 12K miles.

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One of the cleanest, smoothest running EA82-series that I have been in. 

 

It was hard for either the OP or me to reproduce any noises, and even when he did I had to listen carefully (quieter than the sound of the heater blower on high) and I could not feel any accompanying vibrations.  My best guess is a resonant noise (as opposed to physical contact), either intake/exhaust flow or something loose vibrating.

 

Once again thank you so much for coming over and putting my mind at ease. It performed wonderfully during the WCSS trip. I really didn't want to be the one breaking down since I was the lead car.  And if you ever temporarily need "some concrete" to put that tranmission in - you know where I live.

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