markw20

That makes sense, best of luck anyway. I hope the clutch sorts it out for you

Just to add to my last post, if you listen carefully you can hear the lag time between the cluch pedal being pressed and the noise stopping. As far as I can tell this is the time taken for the heavy gearbox components to wind down an shed their momentum, again not symptomatic of a thrust bearing where you would expect the noise to stop instantly.

Not sure about anyone else but it sounds like the gearbox to me, my understanding is; Clutch engaged (pedal up) - gearbox shafts spinning, thrust bearing stopped Clutch disengaged (pedal down) - gearbox not spinning, thrust bearing under pressure and turning. The last time I was unfortunate enough to hear that noise under those conditions (not in my zed thankfully) I had to replace the box. If it is I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I hope it helps you get it sorted

I had the same problem, checked banana arms several times to no avail. Ended up changing the bushes in the arms anyway but still no difference. Then as a last resort changed the whole arm including ball joint despite there hardly being any play in it and that finally cured it. If the noise disappears when the brakes are applied then that is almost definitely the problem. Hope this helps

Hi guys, Just noticed this post, I had a similar problem. I have the standard Bose amp (in boot) and speakers but the head unit has been changed for a Pioneer AVIC unit. After some digging around I narrowed it down to a loose connection on the power supply cable for the amp, this is housed in one of the connector blocks that goes into the amp itself. I found the easiest way to diagnose it was to simply wiggle the cables with the stereo playing until the sound came back on. I'm not sure if its a common fault but hopefully this will help

Yeah I did, prob could have used the vice but as it turned out my mate had a press in the garage that he had neglected to mention.

Well after an evenings hard graft the car is now tip top, compression arm bush done, molyslip in the gearbox (changed oil with genuine Nissan stuff last week but it made no difference) and exhaust sleeved with custom made pipe from center section to back box as flanges were corroded and blowing. The pipe was 63mm-60mm internal diameter and 100mm long incase anyone needs to get one made. As for molyslip being snake oil, I would say more like black magic! The gearbox is infinately better now. So now that there is no rattles, crunchy gears or horrible blowing noises from the exhaust it feels like a new car, good night all round I think. Thanks again for the help and advice guys, this forum has saved me no end of trouble

I'm located in Edinburgh. Yeah I think your right, if the old one proves to be stubborn i'm planning to use some gentle persuasion via the use of an air chisel although I assume the alloy arm will be more delicate than a steel equivalent. I'm just off out to the garage to find some suitable sockets as I have some large ones that have been used for hub nuts in the past. Thanks for the help guys

Thanks for the quick reply, unfortunately I'm doing it at my mates garage tonight when the machine shops will be closed and it has to be off the ramps by tomorrow morning.

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum as I have only had my Zed for a month or so. So far very impressed with the technical knowledge on the site as it has already saved me a fortune I was wondering if anyone knows if it would be possible to press a new compression arm bush in using a large vice as I don't have/know anyone that has a press and I am planning on fitting it tonight.