So this sound has been in my car (99 Accord EX 4cyl) ever since I bought it used which is over 5k miles ago almost a year now...

Anyway you can hear it only in park, in neutral, and sometime when your about to stop when it changes gears...so yes it is an automatic trans. And I just noticed that it is getting louder (you can hear it inside the car and out side the car and it is not a faint sound anymore) and it almost sounds like a bad washing machine or something but with medal being washed instead of clothes lol...

So I put my cell phone up to the transmission were the sound seems to be very loud and I recorded it for yawl to an MP3 so it sounds like what you hear in the attached file below.

Tell me what yawl think or if you have come across this sound and fixed it because I much rather fix it myself...

Thanks,
Steven.

 

Highly skilled team of Honda enthusiast and nobody responds???

 

The transmission fluid is right where it needs to be when the engine is off or is it any different than checking the oil? Like does the engine need to be warmed up to check the fluid level for the transmision?

 

Honestly, I have no clue. It makes the sound when you take the load off the torque converter it seems by your description. Maybe you have a broken fin or something in the torque converter. Have you changed trans fluid ever?

 

No I have not changed the fluid.

I got my t-belt, t-belt tensioners, and waterpump professionally replaced recently to see if the faint noise would go away but it did not and they could not hear the noise I was talking about since it was so faint inside of the Honda Shop. A few weeks later the noise becomes very noticeable and I am not the only one to notice it when the hood is even down!

What are the signs of a trany kicking the bucket? A noise like this?

 

I know it is not a knock from the engine. But it does sound like a knock or a scrap from the transmission and the sound is loudest right from the location where the transmission meets the engine.

 

I don't know that I'd refer to us as highly skilled :chuckles:. With a noise like that I'd probably just take it in to a shop to get it diagnosed. I don't like dealers, but with the tranny problems the 6th generation has had they might have a good idea of what's going on.

 

haha, thanks man. regretfully it looks like I will have to take it in...I will let everyone know the outcome.

 

Loose bolt on the flywheel?