Sorry about taking the thread i had this happen last week and started a thread with no responses to it. Hope yours isnt the tc. good luck!

 

My mechanic talked about using a stethiscope (my spelling sucks without spellcheck :-)
on the car when trouble shooting, You might be able to borrow or buy a cheap pair to check out your issue.

Good luck

 

I'm leaving for a while, I'll check back in later or tomorrow with more info or a recording

Thanks everybody!

 

No problem, we're all trying to figure this stuff out, glad you jumped in, you never know who's going to have the right piece to solve the puzzle.

hope everything works out (cheaply) :-)

 

Since you already voided your warranty just get some fluid and check it yourself. If it is full of shavings it is most likely done. Good luck hopefully it is not the same thing that happened to my car. Twice

 

Yeah the day after i checked the fluid and it came out really clean a little bit of the normal stuff on the magnet but no chunks or shavings.

 

So one more thing i most likely will be rebuilding myself if it is the tc can i just rebuild the front diff with a lsd or even just buy one from someone on here?

 

i say do the preasure test first then start crossin things out from there

 

I had the issue and it turned out to be stripped exhaust bolt where the downpipe met the cat/testpipe. Replaced that and tightened it up and all was well again.

 

Check your turbo for shaft play and report back.

 

OK , my issue appears to be solved. When the shop put the IC back together (from the accident repair), they either didn't observe the torque specs, or the clamps "heat cycled" their way lose.

I also needed to put in a slightly longer piece of silcone hose that joins the AMS lower IC pipes, because of the added "stretch" that the wider IC caused.

It's now about a 3 & 1/2 inch gap between the two pipes , so I'm going to insert a piece of thin 2" diameter (new) exhaust pipe that is almost the length of the gap so that the extra length of hose doesn't begin to baloon as it ages.

 

Well i am glad yours got resolved I have looked at the turbo and there was no shaft play. i guess i will be tearing the undertray off and checking out the ic pipes also maybe the leak test will help i hope.