Tape Player Clicking! Options

[aspen]

I've got the 8 speaker sound system in my Celica, with the premium headunit.

The tape player will occasionally click when I'm listening to my iPhone, which is really annoying.(It's very loud.)


Is there a fix? Something I can do?

I refuse to buy another headunit(unless it's another OEM one identical to what I have(and if you want to sell yours, PM me, I want a spare)) because I don't want a disco ball in my cockpit.


Thanks!

[TerryE]

Ah, you not going to want to hear this, but here goes: I also have the premium sound w/cassette and this is what I found: the drive gears develop cracks, see pic below, probably due to heat/cold cycles. The areas outlined in hot pink are where they are on mine, as you can see I tried re-shaping the gears and gluing them a bit but it only helped when playing in one direction.

I spent a couple hours trying to find info on the net for Fujitsu parts but didn't have much luck. As a side note the Mrs's Camry (2000 LE) makes the same noise on her cassette, so I expect it is the same unit.

When I figur' out how to post an image w/o using p'bucket you'll see what
I mean.


This post has been edited by TerryE: Nov 25, 2009 - 4:31 PM

[TerryE]

Ah, maybe th pic will come thru now:

The pink circled areas are the cracks, notice the shine from my attempt at using super glue to reconnect the halves of the gears (helped), also note the re-shaping of the gears with a swiss file (which did'nt work due to gears being nylon or delrin), ended up using an x-acto knife which did help (barely audible) in one direction only. Anybody know where to get Fujitsu Ten parts?