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Gary Schulz
Guest
We have had a couple of reasonably good weekends the past few weeks and I
have been taking the car into the local river a number of times. I have
begun to notice a strange noise coming from the water transmission. The
noise appears as a relatively loud chattering sound almost like a muted
grinding noise. It seems most prevalent when the water trans is engaged and
I am in the process of letting the clutch out to start off in first gear
(i.e. entering the water). The land gearbox shifts smoothly and is very
quiet by itself, it only seems to make a clattering when I am letting the
clutch out with water trans engaged. It will also clatter when the land
trans is in neutral and I let the clutch out with the water trans engaged.
The water trans will make noise when you abruptly accelerate the gearpack
with the water trans engaged as well. I have checked the fluids etc. and
all seems well. Also the water trans is quiet once it is running
steady-state at speed, it only seems to make noises during abrupt
acceleration. Do these symptoms sound familiar to any one? BTW the gearbox
has a grand total of about 300 miles on it, it was purchased years ago NOS.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Gary Schulz
have been taking the car into the local river a number of times. I have
begun to notice a strange noise coming from the water transmission. The
noise appears as a relatively loud chattering sound almost like a muted
grinding noise. It seems most prevalent when the water trans is engaged and
I am in the process of letting the clutch out to start off in first gear
(i.e. entering the water). The land gearbox shifts smoothly and is very
quiet by itself, it only seems to make a clattering when I am letting the
clutch out with water trans engaged. It will also clatter when the land
trans is in neutral and I let the clutch out with the water trans engaged.
The water trans will make noise when you abruptly accelerate the gearpack
with the water trans engaged as well. I have checked the fluids etc. and
all seems well. Also the water trans is quiet once it is running
steady-state at speed, it only seems to make noises during abrupt
acceleration. Do these symptoms sound familiar to any one? BTW the gearbox
has a grand total of about 300 miles on it, it was purchased years ago NOS.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Gary Schulz