Hey evom, my car has been making a light sqeaking sound and can't pin poin it. I think it's my tob cuz it completely stops once I push in the clutch or slightly push it in. My clutch does feel I little worn but not slipping or anything. I just put in a act clutch about 10-15k miles, never lauched the car but have done hard pulls. Also not having no clutch chatter. Again it's a squeking sound like a bad pulley or something. I did spray wd40 on my belt and pulleys to see of it was an didn't make a deferent. Any help or feed back would be great. Thanks everyone.

 

No one knows ??

 

When you did the clutch 10-15k ago did you replace the TOB? If the answer is yes then I'd say not the TOB. Even a crummy one should last longer than that.

 

If you put the ACT throw out bearing in there with the clutch then I'd be $10 it's the TOB. Anything other than OEM is garbage and doesn't last for crap. Exedy is the only manufacturer I'm aware of that sends real OEM bearings with their clutch kits.

 

If you touch the clutch pedal and it goes away, it's pretty hard for it to be anything other than the TOB. Massive longshots by comparison, anyway.

+1 on OEM or bust.
Also keep in mind the OEM is **** too, just much better **** than the aftermarket ones. These TOBs all will make noise sooner or later. It might be in 5000 miles, it might be in 5000 feet. It was bad enough Mitsubishi had several internal documents instructing to no longer replace noisy ones, even with no miles on them, as it was a trait of the component. Just be on the look out for godawful noise levels.

 

When I put the clutch in I but the complete kit with tob. So it isn't stock tob.

 

sounds like TOB mine vibrated until i pushed in clutch for about 2 weeks before my pedal sank to the floor and never use wd40 on belts -_-

 

Or it might be at 89.000 miles like as when my stock clutch gave out and the OEM TO bearing that I pulled out of the black murk was a smooth as whipped cream. I'd have stuck it back in and run it some more if I hadn't had a new one on hand. Sure, mine rattled anytime I had the A/C on - that is normal. So, no, I'm not convinced TO bearings are as bad as you portray them.

 

Key words of your own "that is normal". They are noisy. I'm sorry you don't like that I said that, but they are. I'm glad your one throw out bearing felt smooth in your hand (which they all do unless they are literally failing). I on the other hand have dealt with more than one. More than ten. More than one hundred.
They are all noisy, just like you said "that is normal". Some are quieter than others, but I have never noticed one that was dead silent on these, not even when they had zero miles on them and I was doing post port inspections.