[alfa] Shrieking GTV6

[Darren Leung <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Need some sleuthing help over here...
Months ago, maybe even last year, I started hearing a metal-on-metal, 
pulsating, grinding/shrieking noise coming from underneath the flywheel 
in cold weather and seemingly whenever I ran the engine hard.  Sounds 
are hard to pin down, but with some local help, I believe the sound is 
principally started by engine braking from elevated rpm's.  Running hard 
alone will not necessarily cause it, but engine braking does.

So, not being familiar with the interface around the 
flywheel/prop-shaft, I would like to know if any digesti can come up 
with a good explanation as to the actual source of the sound.

Though it may mean nothing, a coincidental problem is that the starter 
motor simply will not start once hot.  Solenoid clicks, but there's no 
go.  As I understand it, chances of hitting the flywheel just-so so that 
the gear does not engage are pretty slim, but the point is that it 
happens consistently.  (the starter has been serviced 2 times with new 
solenoids each time).

Thanks for any ideas,
Darren
83 GTV6
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