Yep, found both of these last night.   
In our case, it only gets loud when the level gets low (imagine that).   
Clay, I am sure - like everything else that breaks - I will try the fix myself.  I think I am just going to take the approach of taking "extra" things out my way to make God's plenty of room.  I only get frustrated when trying to do car brain surgery through a 1/2" opening.