i am having cricket noise around clutch/transmision .I can moistly hear it when i am in neutral but when i press the clutch it goes away .

Any one have any idea what it could be i was told that it could be a loose clutch or something with flywheel.

any info helps thanks

Also this is not my first manual tranny.

 

Wrong. Don't listen to them! The problem is the tC does not use a pilot bearing or bushing. The noise you hear is the throwout bearing when I replaced my clutch at 22K the bearing was trashed. The bearing isn't designed very well as it is not a sealed bearing it has an area where debris gets into the bearing and causes early failure of the bearing.

 

awsome i think i just hit 50k. so u would recomend to check and replace the clutch and bearing ?

 

Tough call. Bearing probably so however clutch doesn't have enough miles. Only problem is you have to remove you transmission for either one. If you are planning on doing some mods that will require a new clutch and you can afford one, I would say go for it otherwise just hold off longer until the noise either gets worse, annoys you to the point you cant take it, or its time for an replacement or upgrade.

 

yeah i plan to upgrade my clutch but no funds right now.lol all my funds covering my moving do cali. yay

so ok and if for now i wait until nois get worse . now if the bearing ged preaty bad can it damage something realy bad or would just the bearing be messed up?