the dipstick for a 5 speed tranny on a 98 z24? i have some noise coming out of the car and it sounds like front bearings again but i did them last year. i think the rears are making the noise. there a sqeak coming out of thme in the morning or when i come out of the laneway. the tranny was low in the winter so i want to check that too!
any help would be great. the manual says check level on the vent plug and doesnt tell you where it is?

I have a 97 2.4 with a 5 speed, here's where mine is...

I have to lean over the passenger fender, past the exhaust manifold. The dipstick is close to the firewall, under the shift cables, almost straight under the master cylender. I can't twist enough to get to it any other way, sometimes it sucks being tall.




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John Wilken
2002 Cavalier
2.2 Vin code 4
Auto

i put a right front wheel beaing on my mom's cav, and put anotherone on the following year, so that could still be it

On the 5 speed Isuzus, the 'dipstick' is a flip-top type short plug on the top of the tranny kinda directly down from the master brake boster/cylinder. You can see it from above, but easier to reach from under the car. Get an old toothbrush and a rag to clean off all the gunk around it BEFORE you 'pop'/flip the release. No sense getting crud into those gears!! The older your tranny, the less tight the rubber washers will hold when 'squished'/crushed. It's not difficult to modify it to restore the squish, or you can buy a new one at GM, or salvage one off a used, blown tranny.

thanks i put two new ones last year and the fall before, the guy said the seal werent on the first ones so they rotted in the winter. gee i think my one year f'in warranty ran out last month. i hope its a back one. how come they go so easy? i only did two burn outs?
thanks for your inputs

my mom didint do any. did u get aftermarket bearings?

You can get 'raped' by GM buying their hub-bearing units. I went aftermarket and found some at roughly half the cost from RockAuto. I forget the maker, but recognized the name. I'd seen it before, reputable company. Anyway, bearings going bad sound like a smooth, steady rumble, and noise intensity depends on whether they are under load (i.e. the car is turning). The squeek might be the wear indicator scraping on the rotor, or simply the rubber bushings in the suspension waking up.

lol at least the hub bearings are easy to replace on your own if not a bit expensive, so if you know what youre buying and know what youre doing you wont get raped by a dealer or the factory