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When the cars standing on idle there is a rattle/rumble from the underside which goes away when I press the clutch in, obviously its hard to tell if its happeneing when driving due to road noise and other rattles.

I recently replaced the clutch and release bearing and everything was fine but it only seems to have started in the past couple of weeks (did clutch about 1.5 month ago now.

Is the clutch just settling in or have I managed to f00k it already do you think?

could be the centre bearing ! got the same problem done mine yesterday, or could be the doughnut !!

Thats called gear box chatter.

Demlotcrew wrote:Thats called gear box chatter.

is it normal and harmless or does something need fixing?

choppa7 wrote:

Demlotcrew wrote:Thats called gear box chatter.

is it normal and harmless or does something need fixing?

most of them do it and unless its deafing it seems to do no harm ,i belive its the layshaft bearings ? anyway mine did it for 100k of hard use and never got worse or let me down either

I wouldnt worry about it.
I dont', and mine sounds like its ready to fall to bits...

nice one. One more thing off the worry list!

Cheers lads!

I think have qa similar noise on idle so hope it's that too.
Also when I set off from spped bumps at low revs in 2nd there is often a slight noise. I think it is from the gear box or clutch??????????? any ideas for that. It does worry me a little

it's gearbox chatter or to be more specific the layshaft bearings. Nothing to worry about.