Hey guys there is a really low sounding noise coming from my engine, its kinda werid because its not there all the time, when I start my car everything sounds fine but after I drive for about 10 minutes you can hear a noise coming from the engine, its kinda sounds like a cricket? The noise will stop if I barely press down on the clutch, then when I release my foot off the clutch its back? I am coming up on 10K miles and I have no clue what it is? My car is running great to and its not causing my car to run any different then what it has been. Anyone else have this type of problem come up?
thanks for any help in advance!

 

Sounds like the throw out bearing is off a little. It maybe just riding on the fingers of the pressure plate at rest, but then as you depress the clutch come into full contact , and stops squeaking.

Also might look into adjusting your serpentine belt just to be sure. and look at the ideler pulley.

 

thanks man, Im taking it to the dealer in the morning, Just wanted a 2nd opinion before I go, once again thank ya

 

Belt tensioner. Alot of new Toyotas are notorious for this. My 02 celica went through 3 of them in 30K miles.

 

Xb does not have a serpetine belt like the celica 1zz does, thus no belt tensioner.

 

maybe it's a cricket

 

^yeah what he said

 

Mine did the same thing all that was wrong was it was a little low on clutch fluid.

 

CLUTCH fluid, do you mean transmission fluid?

 

hmmm haven't had this problem yet...

 

nope, clutch fluid. the clutch uses a hydraulic fluid, also called brake fluid, but that sounds a bit confusing.


and....



mao shortbusxb

 

how do you check your clutch fluid level or add

thanks

 

I fixed my cricket noise with some belt dressing on the serpentine belts

 

thanks guys I dont think its a serious problem, it seems to be running fine but Its goin to the dealer today so Ill let you guys know what they say.

 

Yeah mine is making a similar noise as well. It seems to be mainly when I come to a stop and then accelerate again. It is on the passenger side so I figured it could be the serpentine belt, a pulley, or the alternator. I don't know. I am also going into the dealership to find out soon. Like always though, they will probably tell me "we couldn't hear anything."

 

My noise was the throw out bearing, I got it fixed a week ago and all is well. Good Luck at the dealer homie, I Hate it when you hear something and then you get there and it stops making noise, it happen to me and I left and as soon as I got about 5 miles away from the dealer it started and when I went back it was still goin so it worked out.

 

Glad to hear the exterminator got the bugs out

 

samething was happening on my wife's xB it started at or around 25K. It was the belts. replaced them with some goodyear ones from autozone and it is quiet again.

 

About how much did a new belt run you? Another thing, shouldn't serpentine belts last longer than 25K? I was thinking at least 50K.

 

I don't remember how much the belts were. I bought that and spark plugs oil and a filter at the same time. The belt were in good shape, I tend to over do it on maintenence. Her last car was a chevy crapalier that I traded in with 130k and it ran great. It was just time to get a new vehicle before problems happened.