Basically... Been to Jap North at Haigh Hall yesterday and on the way back stopped via a friends. I set off home and leaving from the lights I cant remember if it was first to second or second to third gear change but I heard a heavy banging noise as if something had hit under the car. I slowed down a little and heard a bit of a rattle, put my windows down to see what it was and noticed the rattle was coming from the gearstick area. With the gear gaitor removed it was much louder but the car seemed to drive fine. It had a sound to it as if there was something rattling round to the extent that I could picture in my head a a mechanism spinning round and a noise as if someone had chucked a stone in and it was rattling round but as if you could just pick it out and the noise would go and everything be fine because it drove okay!
Now whether it's me being paranoid now im concentrating more on it or not I dont know. It seemed to drive as usual and I could engage all six gears but ocassiionally it seeme a tad notchy going into gears but like I say it could just be paranoia. I was a few miles from home and drove back normally, no issues bar this loud rattling noise from beneath the shift area. When I got home I went to put the car in reverse and the only difference to normal was that it juddered when reversing onto my drive so I drove forward again so I could reverse a second time (to make sure I wasn't just being lazy on my clutch pedal and letting it out too quickly the first time) and it still juddered.
When the car is sat on my drive in neutral it makes the rattling noise. If I push my clutch pedal to the floor it goes silent and its fine but the instant I let the clutch out the noise starts again.
My car is a spec R S15 with the standard 6 speed box with a standard cluch as far as I know.
Now a couple of things I have noticed previously if it helps, BEFORE today:
It does have a C's short shifter which ever since buying the car seemed to whine mainly in 2nd, 4th and 6th gear (always done this, not just since the bang earlier today) which to me I figured was potentially a selector fork but after reading up and talking to people I was told this was a characteristic of the C's shifter before I bought the car.
Sometimes the car didn't want to go into reverse and you had to fight with the stick to get it to engage.
Sometimes if you were driving it towards the top end of the gears when changing up to the next gear it was sometimes struggling to go engage, not always.
When hot, small amounts (like really small, barely noticeable) of smoke from the gear gaitor, again I'm told is characteristic of the C's shifter?
When turning the engine off it knocked a couple of times as the engine came to a standstill but if you turned the igntion off with the clutch pressed in, it was silent... (clutch release?)
Couple of questions...
Is it okay to drive as is or will it get worse/could I do more damage?
What do you think the problem is? could it jus tbe cluth release or does it sound like an input shaft?
Here is two short videos I have, the noise as you can see alters with the revs of the car. Removing the shifter and loking in I couldn't see a thing. The video seems to have picked the noise up really well so hopefully it'll help with diagnosis. I really need this fixed as it's my daily driver
Now whether it's me being paranoid now im concentrating more on it or not I dont know. It seemed to drive as usual and I could engage all six gears but ocassiionally it seeme a tad notchy going into gears but like I say it could just be paranoia. I was a few miles from home and drove back normally, no issues bar this loud rattling noise from beneath the shift area. When I got home I went to put the car in reverse and the only difference to normal was that it juddered when reversing onto my drive so I drove forward again so I could reverse a second time (to make sure I wasn't just being lazy on my clutch pedal and letting it out too quickly the first time) and it still juddered.
When the car is sat on my drive in neutral it makes the rattling noise. If I push my clutch pedal to the floor it goes silent and its fine but the instant I let the clutch out the noise starts again.
My car is a spec R S15 with the standard 6 speed box with a standard cluch as far as I know.
Now a couple of things I have noticed previously if it helps, BEFORE today:
It does have a C's short shifter which ever since buying the car seemed to whine mainly in 2nd, 4th and 6th gear (always done this, not just since the bang earlier today) which to me I figured was potentially a selector fork but after reading up and talking to people I was told this was a characteristic of the C's shifter before I bought the car.
Sometimes the car didn't want to go into reverse and you had to fight with the stick to get it to engage.
Sometimes if you were driving it towards the top end of the gears when changing up to the next gear it was sometimes struggling to go engage, not always.
When hot, small amounts (like really small, barely noticeable) of smoke from the gear gaitor, again I'm told is characteristic of the C's shifter?
When turning the engine off it knocked a couple of times as the engine came to a standstill but if you turned the igntion off with the clutch pressed in, it was silent... (clutch release?)
Couple of questions...
Is it okay to drive as is or will it get worse/could I do more damage?
What do you think the problem is? could it jus tbe cluth release or does it sound like an input shaft?
Here is two short videos I have, the noise as you can see alters with the revs of the car. Removing the shifter and loking in I couldn't see a thing. The video seems to have picked the noise up really well so hopefully it'll help with diagnosis. I really need this fixed as it's my daily driver
