I used a piece of pvc pipe to find the high pitch whine in my Miata by holding the pipe up to my ear and moving it around the engine bay, pressing it against stuff. Found it at the center of my alternator.
On Oct 27, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Bryan Wyatt wrote: > Hey all, > > With late fall upon us, I've started driving my OTM more often. > For those that don't know, it's a beat-up '99 Civic DX with about > 174k on the clock. I had the timing belt and a motor mount > replaced over the summer and have driven it maybe once a month on > average since then. When I was going to take it in to the job, the > car had been making a high pitched sound at idle and when the car > was moving that would come and go from time to time. The noise > seemed to be coming from the area of either the water pump or > timing belt area. Strangely enough, the noise completely died on > the way to the shop and didn't come back...until now. Now it's > louder than ever and really has me worried considering that the > Miata won't get driven much (of course, the Miata is most likely > either in need of a clutch master or slave soon...). > > Any guesses what the noise could be? > > -Bryan > > _______________________________________________ > Miatapower mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
