Squeaking/ whistling noise when I take foot off accelerator

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Cyant1fical
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Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:29 pm

Any ideas? It’s like a whistling sort of noise when I take my foot off accelerator to slow down but disappears when I press the pedal again? I don’t have any specials mods that’d do this by the way, just anstandard m40b18 engine and it’s annoying me because I don’t fancy the car dying on me
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Brianmoooore
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Tue Dec 05, 2017 8:44 pm

When you take your foot off of the accelerator, the vacuum in the inlet plenum increase to maximum, so a whistle probably indicates a small air leak into the inlet.
Plenty of possibilities, but inlet manifold gasket would be a likely candidate.
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Ro3345
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Wed Dec 06, 2017 9:42 am

Is it definitely coming from the engine bay?
Could it be a worn or loose diff pinion? Or some other driveline noise?
Mine makes a bit of a whirring sound when it's not under load (on a neutral throttle)
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Wed Dec 06, 2017 6:51 pm

As above mentioned,possible leak in the inlet manifold,i had the same problem with mine,turned out i didn't tightened up one of the bolts at the vacuum pipe.
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