Need some suggestions. Does anybody know about a weird noise coming from i believe underneath the car. When i start off it sounds like your running over a piece of metal vibrating sound it only does it in first n second gear. what i think it might be is maybe my catalytic converter plate protector but im not sure what do you guys think? If it helps no cel's or any performance issue i get proper boost and shifts good ....

 

Both my SS/SC and TC have made a rattle noise when off throttle in 1st and 2nd ..... I can only hear it when Im driving next barriers or going threw an underpass. I'm not sure what causes it but I bought both cars new and they did it from day one.

 

I think that's normal. It might just be the way we operate our transmissions whether that's good or bad. lol I think it is the sound of the pressure plate hitting the flywheel.

 

yup mine does it too

 

yup i get a rattle too sometimes, even in higher gear when comming off the gas Sometimes I hear it when I go through the checkpoint going to work and have to show the guard shack guy my id. Of course then im stopped and in first, withc cluthc pushed in all the way. LEt clutch out and rattle rattle.. Try it again 30 seconds later, and nothing, quiet.

 

if it sounds like a quiet cowbell, i just had my clutch done and while pulling the trans out we looked for this sound. we found a heat shield of some sort broke, im guessing it was from tourqe cause i started hearing it after a race.

 

Nope no cow bell sound here ..... the best way i can describe it is........ if you have a cordless drill with all the different settings for how far it will drive a screw...... turn it to the weakest setting and hold it .... it makes that kind of clicking sound but at a faster rate. The only time i hear it is when driving by a barrier or in a tunnel or underpass.

 

i'm hearing a similar noise, mostly 1st and 2nd, low RPM, and under load. almost sounds like a metal washer spinning freely... metal on metal noise/vibration. once i go higher into the RPM, it disappears.sound like it's coming form the passenger side front (by the belts)


btw, i have an 08 2.4L Sport

 

mine has done it for a long time. Sound got louder when I put in the lightweight flywheel.

 

SOLVED my problem today....

there is a heat shield right under the downpipe (i have a 2.4L) that has 2 bolts, 1 on the trans, and 1 on the ????. not the trans bolt, but the "pivet" point bolt was loose and causing a rattle at low RPM. you can get to it from the top, reaching through the engine bay and tightening it with a 10 mm. (its hard to find because the bolt is under the fuel lines)



hope this helps some of you

 

I figured it was a headsheild when I heard mine doing it. My brother's F150 rattled the same way and it was an automatic and it was a heat shield on that too.

 

mine does it too... especially next to concrete dividers..

 

Gear rattle.

Its normal.