About a year ago I replaced my 5 speed (bad bearing-woudnt stay in 4th) with a newer, clean, low mileage junkyard tranny. Now it seems to have a bad bearing also. It makes noise in neutral and in 1st gear with less noise in the rest of the gears(input shaft bearing?- noise goes away with clutch disengaged) -Are these trannys that weak ? I have fixed a 4speed corvette tranny before- but it sounds like a pain to set up the diff on the awd gearbox-any suggestions/comments. I drive it fast on long road trips but not abusive.

 

thanks

scott in portland OR

Anyone got a used one for less than $600 (WA,OR, n.Cal)?

If the noise goes away when you disengage the cluch, it's the gearbox.

 

The early Legacies had weak main bearings, so you probably got another weak model at the junkyard :-(