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Re: Noise in Rear End

To: Ken Strauss <kstrauss@dttus.com>
Subject: Re: Noise in Rear End
From: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:13:19 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Ken Strauss wrote:

>      I've got a noise in the rear end of the BlueBee :-(
>      
>      It sounds alot like a worn bearing but you only hear it above 40mph 
>      and when you let off the gas.  Accelerating there is no sound but when 
>      I let off or take it out of gear the sound goes away.
>      I've checked fluid levels in both the tranny and the rear end and all 
>      seems to be well.  Tranny is only a year old ! 
>      
>      Ken Strauss
>      1980 MGB

Sounds like it might be a noisy ring gear and pinion. 

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910


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