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Without elaborating your opinion is not worth much to me, thanks for reading.

***** much?

 

pretty sure my wheel bearing is also going out. makes noise while going straight and turning left but stops if i slightly turn right

 

My transfer case went on my wagon back last november.

 

What did it sound like?

 

Why dont you jack the car up and grab one of the wheels and wiggle them like a normal person. If you hear some clunking when wiggling the wheel up and down and left and right then its a wheel bearing or ball joint. If it only wiggles left and right then its probibly a tie rod.

Evos have the worst wheel bearings ever. If you fly off the road real tuff or run larger than stock tires youre going to go through alot of wheel bearings.

 

Good way to isolate the front wheel bearings is to do small rapid side to side turns while maintaining a reasonable speed (think race care warming up its tires before a restart). If the noise goes away or changes tone while turning the steering wheel to the left its your left wheel bearing and the opposite for the right. Reason being is it unloads the weight on the respective side of the car and usually will make the noise go away. Either way if you do determine its a bearing replace both sides, as its relatively cheap and easy on an evo. If its not the wheel bearings its probably transfer case whine, mines been doing it for the past 60k miles.

 

Update: I got my brother in the back of the car (I will get around to having a listen myself), he noticed the sound without me mentioning it and he jumped over the back seats (wagon FTW!) and told me it is definitely coming from the rear and is definitely louder on one side. I asked which side and he said: "left, that side [points to right], oh wait, I dunno." From the driver's seat it does sound like the left.

The sound goes away at lower speeds after a 10 ish minute drive but the sound at higher speeds does not change. I have a a couple videos which I haven't actually watched yet but if they are any good I will post them up.

Note: Even though the sound is coming from the rear I'm not prepared to rule out the TC, I remember a post in which a member claimed that there was a fault with his TC and the sound transmitted down the driveshaft and made noise at the diff.

I'm not sure why feel like you had to add the bold part, but I have performed this test with no results. Could you elaborate on how a worn ball joint or tie rod could be the cause of my symptoms? Also how an alignment wouldn't affect them nor be noticed?

The car used to have 18s but switched back to stock wheel and tire at 30k miles when I bought the car, but hasn't seen any rough use in my ownership.

Thanks for responding, the noise is definitely coming from the rear though. It's a little relieving that a TC can last 60k miles ( ) after starting to make noise

Thanks for reading, please ***** again!

 

Well, sounds like you're on your way to finding and fixing.

 

at first i thought it was a wheel bearing but it got worse within a week,the death whine,between noticing the noise and getting undrivable was only a couple off 100kms,only made noise on throttle,no noise off throttle.

 

you must have been lucky for your tc to last that long ,between noticing the noise and it being undrivable was only a couple of hundred kms on my tc,mine went on my wagon back in nov 2012,was not cheap,i also thought it was a wheel bearing at first.

 

Andy at first i thought it was the wheel bearing on mine and i thought the noise was coming from the rear,but i was wrong it ended up being the TC,also i cant see how you could drive with the tc on its way out for over 60k,it would not last that long with this sort off issue.

 

If it was one of the rear wheel bearings you should get increased feedback from the steering wheel (like driving on a rough gravel road but to a lesser degree) under heavy braking. From past experience and what you described I am inclined to think that its not a wheel bearing.

As for the TC, there are quite a few videos on here demonstrating our dreaded TC death whine. Without hearing the specific noise yours is making, I can't say for certain if its the TC.

Have you tried cleaning your brakes, rotors, and changing out the brake pads? It probably won't fix your problem, but it might provide you with more information as to the true whereabouts of the issue.

Good luck!

-Mark

 

Right, the video. I haven't managed to find a lift yet. The noise is the pulsing you can hear. Speed was up to 30mph.


Shout out to the wife for epic videoing skills.

 

You can try removing the axle from the hub and spinning it by hand to see which wheel bearings are bad. Otherwise, bad wheel bearings can hum and pulsate. My rear left one was bad before. Pulsates like crazy, especially at 70mph. Never got any louder and was able to drive on it for over a year. There's a bunch of videos on Youtube you can look up on how a bad wheel bearing will sound like, especially if you just spin them by hand.

 

Is the whine constant or only when on throttle,when my tc went it was mostly on throttle.