I picked up a noise recently that I thought was the clutch bell - except it is still there with the clutch removed and that is as far I got with it today. Sounds like a tinny ringing noise coming from the flywheel area. I want to check the gap and hopefully that is the problem. The sound is more pronounced when it is hot and got a little worse today. Got 400 miles on it and this started up about a 100 miles ago in a come and go fashion. It' there at idle and higher rpm's under load or no load conditions.