My first guess was... air lock in the hydraulic line. But you have
rattle... that ain't right!. The $teeler not hear that? Mine don't do that
(different tranny, but still?)!

--
JimG
80' CJ-7 258 CID, HEI
4.56 Gears, Lock-Right F&R
35" BFG MT on 15x10 Centerlines
D44 Rear, D30 Front. SOA
Dana 300 w/4:1 & Currie twin sticks
Warn X8000i w/ dual batteries

00' TJ Sport 4.0L, 5sp
4.56 Gears, TrueTrac rear
33" BFG AT on 15x8 Eagle Alloys
D35 Rear, D30 Front. 3" Suspension Lift


"Peter Pontbriand" wrote in message ...
> No, no puddles that I recall. They would have been frozen anyway. It
hasn't
> been offroaded since before freeze-up, so it's not like I just did some
> fording or something.
>
> I can't say I've ever heard of a clutch being literally frozen before.
>
> So the intermittent warm idle "thunk thunk thunk" from the bellhousing and
> the new bunch-of-marbles-rattling-in-a-can-when-coasting-with-clutch-in
> sounds are unlikely to be related to this disengagement anomaly? (The new
> bunch-of-marbles-rattling-in-a-can-when-coasting-with-clutch-in sound is
not
> the same as the old
> bunch-of-marbles-rattling-in-a-can-when-in-neutral-with-clutch-out sound.
> The latter is standard NV3550 fare I gather.)