Car doom.

[featherynscale]

Asmodeus is going in for a check-up tomorrow, and almost certainly some repairs. He's developed a grinding noise, almost identical to the grinding noise you get when your brakes are going out, when you've let them proceed past squeaking into full-on metal-on-metal grinding. The difference is that he is making this noise on acceleration, not braking. Also, he's having some transmission issues around the clickover point from 4th to 5th.

The car gods, if they are kind, will intervene so that the need for a new transmission is forestalled and the grinding sound be easily resolved. Of course, a) I'm not sure who the car gods are, and b) I have no idea what makes the grindy-grindy sound when you hit the gas (fuel pump? usually that goes clicky-clacky, not grindy-grindy, and yet, what else is likely?). So I'm not real optimistic about the whole thing.

On the other hand, I'm not about to become a member of the Great Unhorsed without some sort of struggle.

Comments

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

If Asmodeus is a front-wheel-drive, I'd just about bet on the half-shafts or universal joints being the problem. Does the noise get worse when rounding a corner?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I just had the half-shafts and associated joints replaced last year. They sounded very different when they went (sort of CLACK! CLACK! CLACK!). If we're doing the prognostication lottery on the issue, my money's on a belt.

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

Hmm. If a belt's out of alignment enough to make a grinding noise, there's usually going to be fraying or damage around the circumference at the edges.