Knocking noise in camry hybrid transaxle
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 11:36 pm
We were recently wondering what could be making a knocking noise each time the ICE comes on.
The noise becomes unbearable, as the vehicle moves.
Initially, we thought the noise was coming from the engine. Engine was removed and disassembled to investigate if there were maybe spurn connecting rod bearings, etc. But nothing suspicious was found. Reinstalled the engine, READIED ON the vehicle. And immediately the ICE came on, we noticed the noise was somehow from the transmission. We suspected it to be as a result of a fault input damper, we replaced, but did not solve the noise. On dismantling the transxle, in order to diagnose it, we discovered that this bearing, probably affixed to the planetary unit, was bad.
The root cause of this failure to me, was caused by lack of trans fluid in the trans axle, seeing that it was a totalled toyota camry hybrid 2007 from the USA.
We are ordering a transmission to fix this problem.
The noise becomes unbearable, as the vehicle moves.
Initially, we thought the noise was coming from the engine. Engine was removed and disassembled to investigate if there were maybe spurn connecting rod bearings, etc. But nothing suspicious was found. Reinstalled the engine, READIED ON the vehicle. And immediately the ICE came on, we noticed the noise was somehow from the transmission. We suspected it to be as a result of a fault input damper, we replaced, but did not solve the noise. On dismantling the transxle, in order to diagnose it, we discovered that this bearing, probably affixed to the planetary unit, was bad.
The root cause of this failure to me, was caused by lack of trans fluid in the trans axle, seeing that it was a totalled toyota camry hybrid 2007 from the USA.
We are ordering a transmission to fix this problem.
