I put in a MP roller pilot bearing about 2 years ago when I put the engine and tranny back in my car. About 8 months after putting the engine and tranny back in the clutch starting slipping and I had a shop put a new clutch in.

It has been about 9 months since the new clutch was installed and now whenever I'm letting out the clucth in first gear I hear this horrible noise coming from the engine/tranny area and I can feel it in the clutch pedal. This problem does not happen when you push in and out the clutch when the car is stopped and in neutral only when you first get going from a stop in first gear. It does not happen in any other gears when the car is moving.

I took the car back to the shop that installed the clutch and they told me they have to drop the tranny due to they think it is either the throw out bearing or pilot bearing.

I have had a bad throw out bearing and those make noise when ever you push in the clutch so I don't think it is that.

What are the symptoms of a roller pilot bearing going bad? My biggest worry here is that they are going to blame it on the pilot bearing and try to soak me for the labor of dropping the tranny and replacing the bearing. Since I have never had one of these go bad before I'm not sure what the symptomes are. Personally I think it is an issue with the clutch plate engaging with the fly wheel.

Any thoughts here would be greatly apprieciated.

-Thanks