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Hi all, I've been trying to figure out the source of a new rattle coming from my Ol' wagon and I'm stumped, hoping maybe someone here might be more experienced and have a better idea. My guess is the transmission but I'm not sure how or what about it. I get a sort of rotary metallic rattling that happens mostly in the first three gears, barely audible in 4th and fifth. It almost sounds like an exhaust shield vibrating but it stops immediately if I pull it out of gear or even just push in the clutch. (So I'm pretty sure it's the transmission) It's at its very loudest when the car is cold, going up a hill in second gear, downhill it reduces to a gentle whine, it also gets less noticeable after the car has been running a while. It sounds like it's coming almost directly from below the shifter, and my first thought was "Gee, I must be low on transmission oil" but taking a look it shows to be ever so slightly over full. I'm trying to think of anything it could possibly be that isn't the transmission (Mostly because if it's the transmission I won't even know where to start fixing it) and the only thing I can come up with is maybe the cv axle? When I bought the car the guy selling it offered me a spare transmission and I didn't take it because I don't have a garage and didn't want to be running around with a spare tranny in the back all the time!! Ooof, feeling pretty stupid about that now. Any thoughts are appreciated, I'm hoping to be able to get some free days here to tear it apart sometime in the next few weeks, here's hoping it's not such a serious issue that my subie blows up on me before then. Doesn't seem to be, as it doesn't effect performance at all. Cheers, Brian
