happydude303

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i was driving home the other day and all was fine then i decided to give it a little bit of 1st.2nd gear and then straight after that it made a weird whining noise like the sound of an eletric motor or somthing, i got home put it in netrual and reved the engine and it was still there left the car for 20 minutes and it had gone give some beans no problems , today i was going home from work and all is fine then i give it some beans in 3rd and the noise is back and its there when i rev it in neutral , p.s this has only started to happen this last two days wear there is lots of water ont he motorway, could this be the gear box or the crank, or pulleys at the front of the engine or clucth over run or even the turbo or maybe the power steering just not sure runing 3 month old 20g fully foregd engine six speed gear box 2002 box, 98 wrx....,............. i thought id put this in this section to as well has the drive train just for some views on what this might be

Splitpin

Check post in the Drivetrain forum if you've not seen it already.

Scooby see-Scooby do

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I started to get a whining noise and feared the worst, also had oil dripping at front of engine, turned out to be leaking power sterring fluid and when it got low it whined like mad

happydude303

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but if it was the power steering would it happen after boost and when driving in a straight line its fine when driving normal only been happing this last two days when i give it the beans radom noises do my hea din

Scooby see-Scooby do

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lol, I'm not an expert, but mine was whiney in straight lines, not sure about parked up in neutral tho....sorry just check the dipper in the power steering pot ifs normal rule that out if its low top it up and test it out.

happydude303

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yeha im going to take it to see its makers and se if they now what on and makers i mean the engine builders and mappers but cheers for the input all input is wellcome

Scooby see-Scooby do

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sure thing, good luck with it

Ray T

check out the alternator, had a bearing flat in mine sounded like a supercharge type whine.

happydude303

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yeah that the sound all right liek a super charger but im thinking it might be my power steering now as i ve check my fluid and it is low evn when hot humm but i am also going to chekc that out tomorrow as well dude with my mate

AshMurc

Mine is doing exactly the same, whining and noticed a power steering leak from the long U-shaped hard pipe that runs along the front of the radiator. whines with acceleration and when in neutral and sepecially when cornering. also when parked it whines (but not as loud) when you turn the wheel, especially against the stops. Supercharger sound is quite a good way to escribe it, but i get some weird sporadic grating aswel. I think it has been been leaking a bit for ages as the noise often used to come and go but now its leaking bad enough that its sprayed onto the bonnet and has become really noisy. I now also get a shuddering through the wheel occasionally when putting quite alot of lock on (e.g. a junction).

Just thought i would list all my symptoms too to help anyone else as its not immidiately obvious what the noise is!

oh and what power steering fluid do i replace it with?
cheers
Ash

happydude303

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mien was the power steering fluid its all good now

jef

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i had this also, high pitched whining,

just swapped my power steering pump tonight, waiting on atf fluid in the morning

im sure thats where it was coming from, thought it was my g/box at first