Need a little help......What I first though was my front u-joint turns out to be a chirping noise coming from my clutch/tranny area. If I am driving down the road and barely push the clutch in the noise stops, but if it is idling and I push the clutch in it doesn't stop. Any ideas how to make this problem go away?

And the vehicle is a ??????

I guess that would probably help. It is a 1993 toyota 2 wheel drive 5-speed with 22re engine. It has about 123,000 miles on it.

Clutch, pressure plate, throw-out bearing. The chirping is likely the bearing going out, but to pull the trans and only replace the bearing makes little sense with those miles. The cluch kit comes with a pilot tool to center the plate. I have no idea what a 2wd clutch costs. O'reilly's, NAPA, Autozone, etc...

if you are rock crawling get marlins heavy duty one, if not I would get one from toyota. I mean look how long they last.
the chirping is the throw out bearing.

Put the Lucas to it. At least one full bottle. If it gets quieter, get ready for a rebuild. If it doesn't, it's probably part of the clutch assembly. If it is the tranny bearings, the Lucas might even get you a few more miles out of the thing before you have to tear it down. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

Forget the redneck Lucas-- that's for muffler bearings.

Throwout bearing; ya get to yank the tranny to do the R&R.

BTW honda, you can modify your profile via the 'my home' link to put your vehicle info in there. Welcome! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

Using the Lucas is the cheapest and easiest way to diagnose the problem without having to tear down the vehicle. If the problem is the front bearing on the input shaft of the transmission (which have been known to give trouble) then a clutch and pressure plate assembly won't do any good. If it turns out to actually be the throw-out bearing, the Lucas is good for your transmission anyway, especially if the transmission is high milage. If this vehicle is your daily driver, then doing this will isolate the problem to one area or the other, which will save you time (knowing exactly what to fix) when you do take it apart, and minimize down time on your vehicle. It does sound like the throw-out bearing, but if it is; the noise should stop when you mash the clutch. At any time. If you spend 8 dollars on a bottle of Lucas and it turns out to be the throw-out bearing: you've just done a good deed for your transmission. If you don't try the Lucas and it turns out to be the front bearing......then you get the joy of taking your truck apart again after spending all that money on the clutch and pressure plate.

I believe the owner stated that he "barely pushed in the clutch" and the noise went away. This would eliminate the front bearing in about 99% of the time. Once the tranny is out, if there is no noticeable wear to the clutch or bearing, then the tranny is already out and he can consider getting it overhauled at that time, also eliminating the need to pull it out twice.

>>>*The key here is the noise is present at idle, not present while moving.

The difference is moving there is load on the assembly.

I have seen this one before, most of the time it turns out to be the throwout bearing itself, but sometimes a small hard spot in the flywheel will develop and the disc itself will squeak as it slightly bounces against the spot.

One that comes right to mind was one of our circle track stock cars, it made so much noise people turned to look at us in the pits. I removed and refaced the flywheel and solved that one....*EB