AMC Eagle Den Forum
1979 - 1983 AMC Spirits and 1978 - 1983 AMC Concords => Spirit/Concord Drive Trains => Topic started by: idigull on October 26, 2010, 09:13:09 PM
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I hope this is in the right place...
I have an 82 Spirit DL, auto trans. I just noticed today while I was parking, it has a strange chirping noise when in reverse. Only in reverse...and the car was not moving. I put it into drive and no noise, back to reverse, noise... I am not sure where the noise was coming from, I did not hear it until I opened my door.
Any ideas?
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I take you mean in reverse with your foot on the brake? Or, it does not move at all in reverse?
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It does move and drive fine as far as I can tell. And yes, I had my foot on the break, but I also released the break and idled back.
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Could be the drive train shifting over the opposite way when in reverse opens up a small leak in the exhaust.
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Once I had a dry/worn out U-joint do that. Would squeak spinning in one direction (backing up) but not spinning the other way (forward). Weird, I know.