Off Subject - MR2 Gearbox / Clutch Problem

[bstark]

This isn't for my car, but for a colleague at work who has been given lots of different opinions from the various clutch centres he has tried. Before committing to £700 plus for a new gearbox can anyone out there furnish an opinion on how likely the suggested problem is?

 

Symptoms:

 

With car (Mk1 Toyota MR2) at standstill, in neutral with engine running you get a strange, almost induction like wuffling noise from the engine bay - sounds almost like no filter has been fitted to rough idling engine.

 

If you then depress the clutch pedal the noise then disappears (with the wuffles, as it were, getting slower) after about 3 seconds.

 

Diagnosis:

 

Various...

easiest being clutch release bearing (straightforward to fix).

Next being the Front Gearbox Bearing - new gearbox & clutch diagnosed!

Finally 'something broken in gearbox' - a couple of hundred quid just for them to have a look at it...

 

 

Anyone have any experience of this in MR2's or anything else? If it's an impossible to guess without seeing it situation does anyone know of any good specialists in Kent?

 

Sorry to ask about a non-7 but other club sites simply aren't as good, are they? wink.gif

 

Bob Stark

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[Andrew Russell]

The MR2 owners club has a website with technical advise pages, I seem to recall, and you may get a more specialised response from them, if it is a particular MR2 gremlin.

 

Can't recall the address but try a search on Google or similar and I'm sure you will locate it.

 

Andrew

[bstark]

Tried that - no joy so far. I suppose I was hoping for an opinion generic to gearboxes in general - if that's possible?

 

Bob Stark

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