Okay hopefully I can explain this. Recently I’ve been hearing/feeling a sound coming from I think to be my transmission. The problem started a little bit ago but I’ve finally gotten around to try fixing it.
So after right around 20min of driving I’ll start to hear a gentle tap noise seeming to come from the transmission about 4 inches towards the engine from the shifter boot. I can feel it on the trans tunnel, don’t feel it in the shifter. After about an hour it becomes a tap and a scratch sound.
The puzzling part is that it can happen in every gear, even neutral and reverse but more specifically it happens when I hit a bump/small crack or some sort of vibration happens to shake the car. I can hear the sound happen if I smack the shifter against the 1/2 gear wall and the 5/R gear wall. It almost feels strictly vibration based but after the car warms up for 20min???? It sounds like how a bad ball joint sounds when you hit bumps.
I took the shifter boot off and can’t see up in there. Tried investigating down below but can’t see as well. Really don’t want to have to tear this thing apart but looks like it might be leaning that way.
Attaching pictures of where the sound seems to be coming from.
Anyone had this issue before or have an idea of where to start?
1986 HJ60 2H/H55F
So after right around 20min of driving I’ll start to hear a gentle tap noise seeming to come from the transmission about 4 inches towards the engine from the shifter boot. I can feel it on the trans tunnel, don’t feel it in the shifter. After about an hour it becomes a tap and a scratch sound.
The puzzling part is that it can happen in every gear, even neutral and reverse but more specifically it happens when I hit a bump/small crack or some sort of vibration happens to shake the car. I can hear the sound happen if I smack the shifter against the 1/2 gear wall and the 5/R gear wall. It almost feels strictly vibration based but after the car warms up for 20min???? It sounds like how a bad ball joint sounds when you hit bumps.
I took the shifter boot off and can’t see up in there. Tried investigating down below but can’t see as well. Really don’t want to have to tear this thing apart but looks like it might be leaning that way.
Attaching pictures of where the sound seems to be coming from.
Anyone had this issue before or have an idea of where to start?
1986 HJ60 2H/H55F