Chirp ?

Lifter chatter?

 

Need way more info dude.

 

Is the 'chirp' coming from the engine bay? Underneath you? Manual trans or auto? When coasting or when accelerating? How many miles on your truck? etc. etc.

 

he says yes..

 

With such little information, I am guessing throwout bearing. That's assuming you have manual.

 

I know . . . a bird trapped under the hood

 

Sorry guys tried to upload a video, can't get it to work. Yes chirping gets faster as I accelerate but is kind of sporadic not really rythmic.

 

Yes manual trans.

 

So you hear the chirping as you're accelerating/pressing on the gas pedal?

When my throwout bearing went bad, it chirped like crazy but it was only noticeable when letting OFF the gas and coasting, and it would go silent as soon as I put any pressure on my clutch pedal. I never heard it when accelerating but then again, I have a loud exhaust so maybe the noise was just drowned out.

Does the chirping go away when you press down the clutch?

 

Yes it goes away when I press the clutch in. I just had a new exhaust pit on so that's why I can hear it well.

 

Chirping that goes away with the clutch pushed in is a classic symptom of a bad throwout bearing, unfortunately it's a common problem in manual Tacomas...I just recently went through it myself with my '04.

The throwout bearing is a cheap part ($20 or so) but in order to get to it and replace it, you have to drop the transmission. That's an expensive labor job. So usually it makes sense to just replace the whole clutch assembly while you're at it (clutch, throwout bearing, pilot bearing, resurface the flywheel, etc.). A good trans shop will probably charge you $500 - $800 for it. Toyota will charge upwards of $2,000. Ask me how I know, lol.

You can cruise around with a chirping throwout bearing for a long time and be okay, or it might crap out on you completely tomorrow...there's no real way of knowing for sure. I've read of guys on here that have had their's chirping for a year and have had no issues other than the chirping itself. I opted to get mine replaced because I didn't want the worst to happen while I was out on a trail or something.

 

Pretty much what he said. I have the same issue with the TOB as well. Them damn crickets! For me, I hear it when the RPM are below something like ~2200. Above that, it stops. Quite annoying. Especially if I happen to not have music on/loud enough to drown it and and I am sitting at a stop light with my window down. Sometimes I find myself ever so slightly touching the pedal to make it go away. Not enough to actually actuate the clutch, but just enough to take it off the TOB.

But yeah it's definitely *not* worth replacing on its own. As eon_blue said, it's the kind of thing you include in your larger clutch job. I am on my original clutch and now at 174K, so while it isn't really giving me any signs of needing replacement, it probably won't be too long before I take care of all that. And then my damn crickets should finally leave me alone!

OP, good luck with the crickets. If you have the sanity for them, then they're most likely not going to be a problem. Replace the TOB whenever you do/get the clutch done.

 

I used to do that with mine as well, rest my foot ever so slightly on the clutch pedal to make the chirping stop. Even got to the point where I would do it while driving and I remember thinking I had found a redneck cure for it, haha. Then I remembered reading online somewhere about how it's actually not good for your clutch to do that, even the slightest amount of pressure on the pedal will prematurely stress and wear out the clutch, especially if you're doing it while cruising. I know how tempting it is though because it FINALLY makes the crickets stop. I got so annoyed by the sound I had to get my clutch replaced at just 30k miles. That turned into a nightmare of a clutch job story though, for another time....

 

don't know if it's been mentioned but a u-joint will chirp like a bird,, big time.

 

Yeah I've been tempted, and have caved a few times, to do it while driving. But I never last for more than just a few seconds because, as you said, I have also read that a tiny amount of pressure on the clutch is enough to have it technically actuate it or at the least, wear the TOB even faster. But while stopped, I see less reason not to. But even that I don't do much. Easier to just have music up loud enough to drown it out haha.

Yeah I expect to be doing my clutch next year. Never done that, or any other transmission work aside from changing fluid, so I am sure that be a really fun thing to learn...

 

Here is the video of the sound at idle.

 

I can open it with VLC but it just plays images as a slideshow. Other than that, it's just a bunch of photos in a zip folder.

 

all i got was a slideshow too ahah.


op just upload to youtube as unlisted and paste the link here for videos.

 

Doing all this from my phone, so I think it worked?

 

There's an acoustic guitar song playing in the background lol.

Sorry man that video is too short I can't really hear anything. When I recorded mine, I had the truck running in neutral (parked) and put my phone under the truck near the transmission. The chirping from the bad TOB was easy to hear from there.