Due to bad design, the quill that the throwout or release bearing sits on is aluminum while the bearing is steel. The quill wears out over time and causes a chirp noise either from offset of the bearing and hitting the clutch fingers weirdly or the bearing wears out itself. There is NO solution other than trying to get it quick enough and sticking a steel sleeve and oversized bearing onto the quill. I have done this, and the sound came back only 10k miles later. I did the work myself, but in a shop with a new clutch and bearing would be around 1200$ to replace, only to have it happen again in a few thousand miles. Most guys just let it chirp for sometimes 100s of thousands of miles, but it is terribly annoying if you have the curse of having a loud one.
A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
Due to bad design, the quill that the throwout or release bearing sits on is aluminum while the bearing is steel. The quill wears out over time and causes a chirp noise either from offset of the bearing and hitting the clutch fingers weirdly or the bearing wears out itself. There is NO solution other than trying to get it quick enough and sticking a steel sleeve and oversized bearing onto the quill. I have done this, and the sound came back only 10k miles later. I did the work myself, but in a shop with a new clutch and bearing would be around 1200$ to replace, only to have it happen again in a few thousand miles. Most guys just let it chirp for sometimes 100s of thousands of miles, but it is terribly annoying if you have the curse of having a loud one.
- Dennis E., Rancho Cordova, CA, US