Chatter like Loose Heat Shield
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Chatter like Loose Heat Shield
My 98 5speed is my first diesel truck, but I've driven plenty of manual cars and an old International truck before.
From day one with my truck, I get a metal chatter (? lingo?) maybe you'd call it a ckkckkkckk grinding? when I start to engage the clutch and accelerate.
It happens more when I start out slow, I notice if I jump on the accelerator as I engage the clutch it happens less often. I don't think I'm lugging the engine or anything when i start out slower, but the chatter and grinding sounds terrible, more like the clutch or tranny not engine noise.
A friend of mine with a dodge diesel said its no problem, his did that a lot "until he learned to drive it" . I asked a mechanic, he swore that it isn't anything in the clutch or tranny, "it's a loose heat shield" though he didn't find one...
I searched the forums, figure this is common, (I haven't had a problem YET that isn't common) but ? didn't find one like mine?
What is it? Am I just driving terrible?
From day one with my truck, I get a metal chatter (? lingo?) maybe you'd call it a ckkckkkckk grinding? when I start to engage the clutch and accelerate.
It happens more when I start out slow, I notice if I jump on the accelerator as I engage the clutch it happens less often. I don't think I'm lugging the engine or anything when i start out slower, but the chatter and grinding sounds terrible, more like the clutch or tranny not engine noise.
A friend of mine with a dodge diesel said its no problem, his did that a lot "until he learned to drive it" . I asked a mechanic, he swore that it isn't anything in the clutch or tranny, "it's a loose heat shield" though he didn't find one...
I searched the forums, figure this is common, (I haven't had a problem YET that isn't common) but ? didn't find one like mine?
What is it? Am I just driving terrible?
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Long shot…try grabbing the 4x4 lever. If you can hold it away from the driver’s side (toward the passenger) and the noise goes away, I have a fix. I chased a similar noise for 2 years.
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The internal baffle in the muffler. Was exactly as you describe for my truck. When I replaced it, It was loose and rattling. Get under truck and give muffler a kick. If baffle, you'll hear it. MBRP now.
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