Hearing Strange Noise From Engine Compartment

I found a maglight this way I once left on the skid plate a year prior LOL.

Driving.. rattle rattle.. hmm what's that.. rattle rattle.. checks it out.. THAT'S WHERE IT WENT!!

 

I used that term once......only once.!

I did recently replace the glove box with one of John's new cardboard ones and the grandson was crawling around in the jeep that time. Had an original 60 year old glovebox screw go missing. He said he didn't eat it so maybe that it? Nothing else missing that I know of.

 

I have a ringy-rattle type noise from up front.
It is the D-rings I have hanging from the mounts for the towbar I do not have. I use them for recovery connections for cables, ropes or chains depending on what I am pulling from the front while the tranny/tc is in reverse, low-range 4 wheel drive.

 

I've been trying to pinpoint the noise. Not engine as l've tried running up the rams and never hear it. Tried coasting and don't hear it. Don't find anything banging the drive train. It sounds like coming from the back of the engine down low. I've made sure it's not the floor pans. It's not there until things warm up good. I'm beginning to think its the throw out bearing so I describe it to a guy who works at a tranny place and he said sounds like throw out before I even mentioned my suspicions. I've got an appointment first week of December to see. Can you tell anything by looking through the inspection plate on the top of the bell housing?

 

I think the time has come for you to post a video of the sound; yes I must agree (with myself).

 

I thought I was only one who heard phantom noises after working on a vehicle. Fixed some rust under the spare tire carrier on my dad's Blazer, then went four wheeling at the beach. 2 weeks later, getting new tires, I pulled my ratchet with and extension and socket off the rear bu.mper mounting nut. How it stayed on I will never know.
These posts are getting me reved up to get back to work on my projects (one at a time of course).

 

True, but see my post #14. T/o could be dragging slightly, and has become damaged. Pushing the pedal silences it.

 

I had a noise like that, liked to have drove me nuts.[maybe it did]. One day I yanked the park brake
handle and released it, no more noise. It was something in the park brake drum that was loose I suppose.
I had thought it was clutch springs .

 

Noise in a car is always interresting.
It reminds me a travel from Frankkfurt to Munich, in a top new BMW Bavaria.
The BMW with Bavaria brand was the top of the top from this factory.
The owner was a partner, owning a factory near Munchen, very proud of being Bavarian. He was right of course.
The place is so nice, all is clean and beautiful. People wear bavarian costumes. There is Oktober fest.
Well, this BMW, written Bavaria at the back, was very nice, full speed on German highway, and there was a strange noise, a small shock, every 2 or 3 minutes.
At the end they stop, look around the car... this was a tyre which was loosing parts, like a puzzle, brand was Continental, Bavarian I suppose.
All Bavarian passengers became grey, shame and risk at the same time, risk to have a spy onboard!
At high speed, the result was probably death for all. That was before 1980, there was no protection like nowaday.
Morality : a small noise car become a big problem.

 

I'll try to record it but that may not come out well on recording with all the normal jeep noises. Like I mentioned earlier, I'm one of those people that truly has selective hearing and unusual car noises is my specialty. It is definitely only after everything heats up, definately not engine (based on engine revving and holding it at standstill), definately somewhere around lower rear of engine block/bell housing/floor pan area by firewall and MOST DEFINITELY not my imagination. Initially only I could hear it, but now wife is able to detect it too. But the sound is not as noticeable as it was before. Would a TO be temperature and rpm sensitive?

 

I have a similar issue, growling noise, usually can make it go away by pumping the clutch. Right now doesn't affect performance and it is intermittent.
Because this vehicle sat so long in a wet climate I suspect t/o bearing or pilot bearing.

 

Had an old 70 Beetle I drove for years. I borrowed a friends pickup to haul some stuff and he drove the VW. When we traded back he said, "Man that thing makes all kinds of creaks cracks, and clunks." I said, that's why it has a good radio." I told him to turn up the radio and keep on driving. It sure did make a lot of noise but never gave up.

Dave

 

The 58 Willys has a short spring inside the bell-housing to hold the throw-out bearing back. Look inside from the inspection cover to see if it is still attached.

 

Here is the video. Once it warms up, I can hear it under 2000 rpm. Once I got home, I opened the hood and I'd swear it's coming from the dead middle of the engine now. I'm thinking next week I'm going to call the engine rebuilder and tow it over for him to listen to.

 

I know the spring was on at one point before I put the floor pans back on. But I might check it again.

 

If that's the case I hope you have tried a stethoscope (or a screwdriver, or dowel) which can easily locate the noise precisely