The headaches have begun...SMS maybe?

[sciroccos at earthlink.net (Jim Ruffi)]

Thanks for the info.  I should pick up one of those listeners....mind my
asking where you got yours?

I have only done clutches and I have "helped" rebuild a couple of auto
trannies, so I'm tragically underqualified to deal with SMS if that's what
it looks like.  The good news (if that's possible) is that the clutch is a
little tired, so I can deal with that, too.

And I probably will want to do a rear main seal while in there (177k mile
car).

The diff bolt job seems straightforward, but it is intimidating....

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Bubb [mailto:dan.bubb@gmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 9:12 AM
>To: Jim Ruffi
>Cc: Scirocco-L
>Subject: Re: The headaches have begun...SMS maybe?
>
>
>I did this just the other day to verify a bad wheel bearing on my
>nephew's car.
>No tires, idling in 5th and using my little piezo crystal electronic
>engine knock listening device which is way safer than screwdriver
>against ear close to rotating component.
>
>Anyway, interesting results. The good wheel bearing was almost silent,
>the bad one quite loud.
>Out of curiosity I also listened to the tranny and water pump and
>despite the fact that all those bearings are relatively new and make
>no noise while driving the car, with my little listener they sounded
>as bad as the bad wheel bearing!
>In any event I'm sure a bad tranny bearing will show up as quite loud
>when you are close to it on the case.
>Are you familiar with tranny rebuilds?
>Dan
>