Re: Overdrive whine

From: jim miller (jmiller@texnet.net)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 20:37:57 EDT


Never heard an overdrive whine, but sure have heard lots of rear ends whine and
the gear your in may change the whine although the diff is at fault.

Brett Forehand wrote:

> Hey folks,
> cruising in sunny North central Texas today with the windows down for the
> first time in a good while... my truck has a high pitched whine coming from
> the rear of the vehicle. The noise starts at about 65 miles an hour, and
> continues to about 70 mph. Hard to describe what it sounds like here, but
> it kind of reminds me of a supercharger. Kick off the overdrive, and it
> quits. I just thought it might be the tires singing, but it quits when I
> let off the gas, plus the overdrive switch makes it stop.
>
> I hate to take it to my local Dodge dealer since they always seem to want to
> replace everything under the sun that could possibly be wrong with my
> truck... spark plugs, air filter, oil, alignment, left nut, first born son,
> etc. etc.
>
> Has anyone else had this symptom????
>
> Let me know by next week... I still have 15k on the warranty! (I drive a
> lot)
>
> Brett Forehand
> '94 Dak Sport CC
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