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RE: Clicking wheels / good news

To: "'Joe Curry'" <spitlist@gte.net>,
Subject: RE: Clicking wheels / good news
From: "Bowen, Patrick A RP2" <PABowen@sar.med.navy.mil>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:28:14 -0400
I have actually had the experience where the sound was dominant only when
the car was under acceleration or gas being applied, took my foot off the
pedal and it shut up. Oh well, I guess the best thing is assume they are bad
and change them

Patrick Bowen

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Curry [mailto:spitlist@gte.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 10:19 AM
To: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou
Cc: Barry Schwartz; Jeff McNeal; spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Clicking wheels / good news



My experience with loose U-Joints cups is that the symptom would be
different. 
Rather than the clink on acceleration or deceleration, you will have a
constant
clink every time the U-Joint flexes meaning it would be there all the time. 
What's more, Replacing U-Joints is hard enough without having to deal with
locktite or some other foreign material.

Joe

Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou wrote:
> 
> Another potential problem is that the U-joint cups can become loose in
their
> holes in the yokes.  The metal of the yokes can apparently expand after
much
> use.  You can spot this problem because the cups will creep round and
round,
> and the top of the cup will be shiny under the circlips where it has been
> rubbing against the circlip.
> 
> The only sure cure is to replace the flange and/or axle shaft.
> Probably you could replace just the yoke on the axle shaft, but
> you would need a jumbo press!  Possibly one of those Permatex
> or Loctite products could fill the gap around the cup...
> 
> Doug Braun
> '72 Spit
> 
> At 06:09 PM 4/6/00 -0700, Barry Schwartz wrote:
> 
> >Jeff,
> >While you may have replaced them, or they may have been replaced, if you
> >didn't check the end float it may still be your u-joints.  If you have
> >disregard the latter.

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