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RE: Try and figure this one out. Anybody? Please give me some Ide

To: "'Trevor Boicey'" <tboicey@brit.ca>
Subject: RE: Try and figure this one out. Anybody? Please give me some Ide
From: "Randy Rees (Volt Computer)" <a-rrees@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 16:50:12 -0700
this actually is only felt in the brake pedal, not in the car or
steering. go figure!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trevor Boicey [SMTP:tboicey@brit.ca]
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 1997 4:46 PM
> To:   Randy Rees (Volt Computer)
> Cc:   'mg'
> Subject:      Re: Try and figure this one out. Anybody? Please give me
> some Ideas!!!!!
> 
> Randy Rees (Volt Computer) wrote:
> > 
> >         Still no help!!. I am at a loss and can't afford to park it,
> I
> > need this for daily transportation.
> 
>   A similar thing happened to me when I missed a corner
> in the Corolla I was just posting about, back in the 80s.
> 
>   It turned out to be a snapped steering rack, beleive it
> or not.
> 
>   I drove it for at least 3-4 months like that, without
> being able to find the problem. The symptom was that
> one certain radius of turn, of which there was one on
> my way home from school, would cause one wheel
> to oscillate and the whole car would tremble.
> 
>   It was such a minor inconvenience on the road, I never
> really panicked, I just kept driving it and every now
> and then would think "jeez I really would like to know
> what that wobble is, oh well".
> 
>   Other than that corner, it drove just fine, I guess
> I was steering with one wheel and the other was
> freewheeling.
> 
>   Check the steering linkage.
> 
> -- 
> Trevor Boicey
> Ottawa, Canada
> tboicey@brit.ca
> http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/

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