pewter82

The manual torque tube utilizes 3 shaft bearing carriers, do these make any noise like a clicking sound? or is this a dogtooth problem? the shifting seems somewhat loose, possibly the old syncro's...but the bearing carriers are something I have not thought about. Anyone been up against this sound in a pre85 OB?

Jason

83 S

hupp

My '79 does the same thing. I believe it is a dog tooth issue. Besides if this only occurs in 1st it cannot be the TT; otherwise, you would hear the click in every gear.

Jim bailey - 928 International

Actually it is usually a problem with one of the 1 st gears hitting on one of the reverse gears an internal alignment issue requires a complete dismantle of the gear box and shimming of the gears away from the interference. The old very brown 1980 does this seems the replacement gear box I grabbed one weekend had that issue. I seldom use 1st gear

Charley B

The two most economical fixes.
1) Play the stereo louder.
and
2) Don't use 1st gear. (Jim's favorite)

justin

My 80 model does this as well.

hupp

Will this result in a noisy box in general? My tranny seems to make a "shhhhhh" type noise. Loud enough to hear over my Borla. I am relatively certain that this is not a TT issue since the car made the noise before and after I replaced the original TT wit a rebuilt unit.

pewter82

I only have the clicking in 1st and nothing that I can really hear over the road/engine noise...that sound could be something else.

jason