Input Shaft bearing problems????

[BigDakota]

I have had an intermittent rotation sounding squeek coming from the bell housing area of my 5-speed trans..I figured it was the clutch release bearing...I replaced the bearing and installed a new clutch..i noticed there was some play with the input shaft, but thought nothing of it because it did not seem bad....I bolted everything back together and fired the X up and noticed it still had the same sound coming from the bell housing area....I am a little torqued about it all....Now..would an input bearing go dry and squack and squeel...sometimes the noise will go away after a few minutes and then at other times it will be a constant?????
Any ideas???

 

[spindlecone]

Did you also resurface the flywheel and replace the pilot bearing?

 

[BigDakota]

Yes...resurfaced and new pilot bearing.....I am looking for my cd with the factory manual on it...darn gremlins got it.....I want to see the break down of the trans..especially the bearing in the case behind the slave cylinder..thats the bugger I am wondering about!!!!! This is my first time experience with the Ford manual trans assembly.

 

[krullj]

Anybody have anything on this? I think I am having the same problem...bad input shaft bearing. I did the same thing...thought it was the throwout bearing and replaced clutch but the noise is still there. Pretty much a whiring that goes away only when stopped with clutch pushed in.

Is the input shaft bearing something that can be replaced relatively easily by a DIYer or should I just wait til it's about to go and put in a rebuilt tranny?

 

[Wrench]

Sport4.0 when the noise appears can it be cancelled by pushing in on the clutch pedal and vehicle stationary? Assuming you have the 4.0L OHV engine then I would get a stethoscope and probe the CMP sychronizer drive base unit at the back of the block, center, just behind the intake manifold on the block. Probe the unit base and not the sensor next time the noise appears.

 

[krullj]

so anybody know how to replace an input shaft bearing?