Anoying rattle

[Syncro G]

Said I'd post this afew weeks ago so someone could help me work out how to fix the funny pinging noise my van makes when the engines running, so here we go...

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The bit with my finger on is the offending part, looks like some sort of mud shield. Its around the propshaft flange of the gearbox - you can see the start of the propshaft and one of its bolts on the right (so its not such a hard guess the syncro part contest).

Question is, should it be fixed to the shaft or the casing and how?

If you didn't here it at the peak weekend and are dieing to know what I'm on about, this video (in the dark with no light) is of me poking it (the sound of which might be barely auidable above a strange buzzing noise my computer seems to have added during uploading to web (seems to have sorted itself now?) - Proof that most thinks I own are to some degree knackered and do as they please. Maybe the syncro isn't quite at the extreme end of that scale?)

pointless video

[Andy syncro-nutz]

[quote="Syncro G"]Said I'd post this afew weeks ago so someone could help me work out how to fix the funny pinging noise my van makes when the engines running, so here we go...[quote]

Yeah my 2.1 does that! Wot i do is turn the radio up

[Syncro G]

Said I'd post this afew weeks ago so someone could help me work out how to fix the funny pinging noise my van makes when the engines running, so here we go...

Yeah my 2.1 does that! Wot i do is turn the radio up

I think I need a speaker upgrade!

[v-lux]

He he,

Know all about that, took a while to track the noise down, i managed to stop mine by wiggling it around and rotating it until it seemed to jam onto the shaft.

Still not sure myself exactly how its supposed to be fitted from the factory. But for the time being mine is staying jammed where it is.

[Aidan]

tis a pressed interference fit, or not depending on what's hit it I'd guess, haven't come across one just falling off.

[Andy syncro-nutz]

Hit the flat part of the dust cover where it meets the shaft with a center punch! This may take a couple of atempts to aquire the desired affect!!

[Syncro G]

Hit the flat part of the dust cover where it meets the shaft with a center punch! This may take a couple of atempts to aquire the desired affect!!

Right so its ment to be atached to the shaft, I'll give that a go, Thanks!

It's certainly too loose to turned till it jams, I've already tried that. So far the best I've managed was puting some insulation tape on it which stopped the rattle for about a day (it rained and the tape fell off). That alteast proved how much noise this thing can make at its resonant frequency. Now I know how its surposed to fit I can give it some "gentle perswashon"