whirring noise,sounds like it's from back but who knows,constant whether in gear or not clutch in or out gets louder as speed increases,been and had all wheel bearings checked,what could it be cos it's driving me insane!!!!!!!????
any suggestions welcome, but i'm told my diff is fine.?

 

could it be a gearbox main bearing or something??

 

where you based?

 

between rotherham and doncaster

 

 

 

Give Rick a ring Lee

 

Sounds like the old classic rear diff whine.....anywhere over about 30mph, worse with little or no load (overun and steady cruise), tends to get quieter under load?

Simon

 

yeah above 30 ish regardless of wether in gear or coasting..might try changing diff oil.?

 

You could but it has a low success rate as I understand it, it can be fixed apparently (no not had it myself) by resetting the bearing preload and diff backlash, the rear R160's aren't very robust and tend to loose both to well outside normal tolerance by the time they get to high mileage (like some as early as 10k miles!).

Most competent transmission shop should be able to do the backlash and preload in about 2 hours....I know a good guy based in Gillingham who can do it as a sideline, used to work at a certain motorsport prep place in Banbury.

Simon

 

off to scoobyclinc thursday, will ask them if this could be a cause,man you know you're stuff i was lost at bearing!!any idea if it's expensive m8?ps where did ya work?