Hi guys,

Well I am little worried, because a long time ago my mini R53 is making this awful noise but is not making always the sound, almost all the times when I use it but not always, also when its doing the ugly sound if I push the clutch the sound dissapears, my mechanic guy told me that the problem is in the gearbox/manual transmission and another mechanic guy told me that is could be a transmission holder, but I don´t know I am worried that is why I am asking help.

Check the video, the most important thing is the sound ok.


Thank you so much in advance, every help, comment, opinion is welcome ok.

Help!!!

Mario

 

In my old car (a Honda CRX), I had a clicking noise that disappeared when I pushed the clutch pedal down, and came back when I let the pedal out. It was a bearing on the input shaft inside the transmission. When the clutch is pushed, the input shaft is no longer hooked up to the flywheel, so it slows down and stops turning. And that's exactly what the sound did.

There is some small chance it could have had something to do with the throwout bearing, but in that case it was definitely the input shaft bearing. I don't know if that's what yours is, but it could be...

 

Thank you so much my friend and that is expensive to fix it? difficult?

 

Any other comment please ????

Help!!

 

If that's what it really it, it will likely require at least partially disassembling the transmission to replace the bearing.

If that is the case, it'll be an expensive fix. Well worth getting more opinions about.

 

T/O bearings get swapped out when the clutch gets replaced...it is just a plastic part in the mini. A few folks have ignored it a few miles, leading to the belhousing getting dammaged, resulting in the need for a new tranny. Some noise from wear is common, but when the noise is loud or the part fails completely, it CAN cause dammage.
Since sounds are very tough to diagnose without touching/feeling, etc, you are just getting guesses....videos of sounds tend to be tuff...the cameras usually have pretty poor mics....
more info....
As stated above it could be a bewring internally, but so many minis have a throwout bearing issue, my $$ is on that unless the tranny has been abused ot run low on oil.

 

Thank you so much guys, I am very sad and worried, tomorrow I hace appointment with my tech/mechaic guy (he told me that was the transmission), but he can´t repair it.

Another mechanic told me that also could be the SC, but the strange thing is when I push the clutch the sound dissapears and when I leave it the sounds come back.

Thanx again, any other comment will be a lot of help.

Mario