Scrape, Scrape, Clunk, Clank, Hard Shift Noise Noise Noise

Cosmic I Appreciate Your Wisdom!! Much Needed!! Now More Headache to my life..

i keep complaining to a friend of mine whos decent knowledge for cars that im hearing a grinding noise when accelerating.. hes drove it once, says im a fool and want a 87 to sound like a mazaratti and to deal with it, all fluids clean and full, i do have some sort of rattle when i accidentally early shift but was told thats some sort of heat plate?? and then theres the muffler nonsense but at my junkyards someones always already got to em before me and i love all the heads as i go over speed bumps, NOT......

the rook thinks maybe the tranny isnt full? (manual). i have (well, had until today) what you all have described as slop shift, very loose.. i read on here about bushings and what not for the shifter, scared to do mine, i did the ones at the yard, and between the three shifters i gutted i was able to get all the pieces.. coincidentally, today i keep thinking the grinding sound coming from the shifter tower is getting worse, louder, sounding like somethings scraping together, not the kind of "cant find em grind em" sound, but like a scraping noise while accelerating, consistent until coasting neutral, but still there very much just sounds like its trying to stop.. ive had the fluid checked they are getting annoyed with me at oil can haha, its dripping out every time they loosen, claiming it couldnt expand that much.. my fluid is mt-90 which is redline and high quality i hear.. redlines site recommended...

last night driving, hear a sound like some change rattling under my hood, ( i thought it was my junk in the back the truck.. made it home fine, this morning she ran fine, pretty much out and about all day, then at 10pm, big old noises, i turn the key off hella fast, and coast to my breakdown in parking lot of oreileys.. (fuck that place, i know they arent technicians but jesus even me and my martha stewart mechanics knows that a 2wd truck doesnt have a transfer case smh) so i rip the shifter tree out, install the bushings i got from yard and squirted some emergency 80-90 (i know, not the same but i knew it would work until home for drain and refill) in through the tree there, bout 10% of the quart and take off..

friend and i agreed driving she sounded a bit better or at least not worse then before pulling off into oreileys.. and the bushings def helped the slop, she seemed nice feeling but extremely tight, loud, and scratchy, scrapy due to whatever the hell the problem is..

by this time, im pissed, i have a mean temper, i just heard weird noises again clunk clank kind, pull over, rip the tree out real quick, squirt the rest the bottle of 80-90 down in there, and yelled at the truck "you wanna do something, go ahead and blow up at least i wont be stuck wondering anymore, junkyard will give me more for your remains than i did for you alive".... i turn the hazards on, and just gunned it across town to home, scrape scrape grind grind, but no clunks...






someone help me please.. is this the stupid throw out bearing i keep hearing about? did the morons i thought knew what they were doing install the clutch wrong (2,234 miles ago, firm pedal, seems nice, ?/) or was the tranny low, and my quart got me home, but shes still way low.. if you know this crap for certainty, please pm a good number to call or text teach this rookie whats up@!

I would check your cris-crosses on your drive shaft, When those start to go bad they will make the noises you are describing.

Another thing might be the differential.

Your post is a little more than "somewhat" difficult to understand.

Throwout bearing noise would be evident ONLY when you push down on the clutch pedal.

Have you checked your two motor mounts and the transmission mount?

509,

Sounds like you need to start at the front end and inspect your truck through the back end.

I'm a bit confused by your initial post (mentioning a bit much in one post). Maybe you can pick one portion of the truck and make sure noting is loose and all fluids are all as they should be.

Dan

I thought about this one some more.

If you have a bad transmission input shaft bearing, you will hear the sounds you are describing.

If you have a two piece driveshaft (one with a carrier bearing) if the bearing has started to fail, you will hear sounds like you are describing.

If you have a differential input bearing that has started to fail you will hear noises like the ones you are describing.

It would help you find the problem if you put the vehicle on a lift and walk around under it while someone else puts the truck in gear and revs it while it is in gear. Or let the shop technician do the walk around. That would at least help locate the noise to a specific part of the truck.

On another note, don't overfill your transmission. There is a bolt on the side of the transmission that when it is removed fluid should drain even with it. Overfilling a transmission can cause the fluid to foam up and that isn't good for the unit.

I don't know how many miles are on your truck but sealed bearings start to fail at 100k miles, Your mileage may vary.

Hard shifting could be a clutch master cylinder or slave cylinder leaking. If air gets in the line the clutch won't release all the way when you push in the pedal.

One last thing comes to mind. If the dowel pins between the engine and transmission are missing (maybe they were removed by accident when the clutch was replaced: it happens) then the transmission itself has to be loosened enough to put them back in, and what you are describing is a clutch that is misaligned because the transmission has slipped down and the clutch itself is beginning to fail. The pins are there to keep the input shaft in line with the clutch and if it goes out of line with the clutch it will self-destruct the clutch.