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Message: <blockquote data-quote="leforte" data-source="post: 208770" data-attributes="member: 1943">hey john,even with the wrong clutch plate, you will still not damage your gearbox as the clutch is merely a coupling for the transfer of engine power to the gears. furthermore, the clutch assembly and your gears are house in a different compartment and its impossible for them to even mess up each other. ANyway, did your mech use the centrerizing pin to aligned the clutch, pressure plate and release bearing with the input shaft, most malaysian mech dont, "thinking they are smarter"? anyway, if its installed off centred it will be noisy as well even if you use the right clutch which is the spring loaded one. and should you have change your manual gearbox oil while replacing your clutch, IF a wrong weight of oil is use, your gearbox will also be slightly noisy but it will be a constant hum and not only while you de-clutch.anyway from your description, with the noise only appearing when you de-clutch, its the exact symptom of installing a solid non-spring loaded clutch with a single mass flywheel. check the pictures i attached below, i am betting that you install the one without the springs? IF your mech tells you he doesnt know the technical difference in them, he should not be touching your car. IF he tells you the bearing in the gearbox is gone and the ONLY remedy is to replace the gearbox, its time to get a new mech. there's few bearings in the gearbox and they hardly fail anyway. if any of the planetary gears in your gearbox should fail, you can always check your gearbox oil for metal bits and particles. please refer to the pictures attached. which clutch plate did you install?</blockquote>

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