dooby-do

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hi people was driving my subaru wrx jdm turbo today as i pulled away hard went from first to second then heard a strange noise so stopped the car.
now when i start the car and leave it on tick over it sounds like a bag of nails is this my gearbox. when i push the clutch down it stops but i have also noticed now that i cant select any gears but last time my gearbox went it never made this noise just when i tryed to drive it you could hear it sounding like bag of bolts so before i go and buy another box i need to no if this is my gearbox.any help would be much appriciated kind regards ben

KAS35RSTI

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Drop the oil on the tranny & look for any metal. Sounds more like clutch related though.

marcevs72

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sounds like springs from the clutch friction plate bouncing around the bellhousing

r1c

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Can you get gears with the engine off?

dooby-do

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nope no gears at all it seems to be just locked up i drained the oil out, there were quite a few on shards or metal on the drain plug but no chunks came out like normal when a gearbox goes.

Turbotits

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Clutch bearing shattered or plate id guess

dooby-do

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so just going to have to rip the gearbox of and take a look at how bad the damage is i guess

dooby-do

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i have just noticed that since i have drained the oil i can now select gears

r1c

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Sound like gearbox to me, draining the oil has probley moved all the swarf around.
Did you have the right oil, and the right amout in? If it was a clutch issue you should of been able to select gears with the engine off.