RideZX-6R
01-30-2006, 06:14 AM
Ok so this morning I went to the gym and on my way back I had to take a road that is REALLY bad... one specific section of it is REALLY bumpy, it jolted around the car quite a bit. Now before this strip of horrid road, my car was normal (or so it would have seemed the way it ran in the last few days).
Right after I go over this series of bumps, The trans makes a horrible grinding noise in ANY gear if I put the throttle past about 10%. If I am really easy on the throttle the car accelerates like normal and doesn't seem like anything is wrong. When you press on the accelerator tho beyond the 10% it makes a sound like the car is only half in gear like a synchro is spinning (that whining/grinding sound).
The car, however, shifts perfectly fine thru all 6 gears and reverse (nursed it home and had to parallel park)... and the clutch is fine, I was in foggy weather and the traffic was bad so I was in 1st gear a lot, pulling out, stop/go, etc. Clutch was just as it always was; normal.
It seems to me like something in the driveline is loose or not totally connected or something. I did notice the other night that when I would shift into 2nd and third hard (street racing, really pushing the car) the car shook like the tranny or something was hitting the undercarriage of the car. This wasn't a vibration but more of a banging. I say this because my theory is the rough/bumpy road shook whatever might've been loose before, and either made it really loose or broke/removed it.
But what would have broken or come loose that I'd have such symptoms? Any ideas or theories?
I can't get the car looked at til Friday (my buddy corey is busy until then) so I'm looking for any theories so I can go and check a bit and maybe help him/myself out.
Thanks in Advance!
Right after I go over this series of bumps, The trans makes a horrible grinding noise in ANY gear if I put the throttle past about 10%. If I am really easy on the throttle the car accelerates like normal and doesn't seem like anything is wrong. When you press on the accelerator tho beyond the 10% it makes a sound like the car is only half in gear like a synchro is spinning (that whining/grinding sound).
The car, however, shifts perfectly fine thru all 6 gears and reverse (nursed it home and had to parallel park)... and the clutch is fine, I was in foggy weather and the traffic was bad so I was in 1st gear a lot, pulling out, stop/go, etc. Clutch was just as it always was; normal.
It seems to me like something in the driveline is loose or not totally connected or something. I did notice the other night that when I would shift into 2nd and third hard (street racing, really pushing the car) the car shook like the tranny or something was hitting the undercarriage of the car. This wasn't a vibration but more of a banging. I say this because my theory is the rough/bumpy road shook whatever might've been loose before, and either made it really loose or broke/removed it.
But what would have broken or come loose that I'd have such symptoms? Any ideas or theories?
I can't get the car looked at til Friday (my buddy corey is busy until then) so I'm looking for any theories so I can go and check a bit and maybe help him/myself out.
Thanks in Advance!