Re: BAD grinding sound.....HELP!

["stuart" <vr6stu@duesouth.net>]

maybe a broken motor mount?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Gallagher" <mgallagher@Langan.com>
To: <jettaglx@igtc.com>; <list@gti-vr6.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:07 PM
Subject: BAD grinding sound.....HELP!


> Hi all,
>
> Here's the story:
>
> 97 glx, 67,000 miles, z-eng s/c.
>
> On the drive home today on Route 78 in Jersey, down shifted to 4th doing
> about 70 to get in the passing lane.  As I let off the gas to shift back
to
> 5th and start to let the clutch out I get a semi-loud clunk.  hmmm
>
> Nothing for another 20 miles.  Then down shifting on the off ramp to 287,
> while letting the clutch out a mutch more pronounced thumping sound.
> Sounded something like if you stick a piece of wood in a fan while it is
> ont.  Real fast, repeated thumping.  Not a gear grinding sound.  At first
I
> thought it was something stuck int eh wheel well rubbing the tire as I
> turned ont he ramp.  I now hypothesize (sp?) that once the engine/fly
> wheel/clutch was back to cruising speed the thunping stopped.
>
> After checking the wheel well for a foreign (or broken) object, I tried to
> create the sound in the driveway and was somewhat successful.  It seems to
> happen when releasing the clutch, before the clutch/fly
wheel/engine/tranny
> all get sync'd together.  Again, it is a deep, rapid thumping,  Not at all
> pleasent.
>
> Any ideas before I schlep it over to the shop?
>
> cheers,
> marc