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Re: Speedos and mystery noise

To: "Ed E. Powell" <102430.3640@CompuServe.COM>,
Subject: Re: Speedos and mystery noise
From: richards@northcoast.com
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 14:16:40 -0800
Must of been a bad muffler bearing........

Chris

On 29 Mar 97, "Ed E. Powell" <102430.3640@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
>The broken speedo story sounded very familiar.  Mine did that while crossing
>Mojave one night.  HUGE racket!  I knew it was going to blow, and it did.  
Still
>haven't any idea how fast I'm going (yeah, yeah, I know -- or how big the 
engine
>is).  But here's something else.
>
>The speedo wasn't the only problem during that trip.  Sometime after dark,
>another truly horrendous and expensive-sounding noise began emanating from 
under
>the hood.  The noise was intermittent and I began to notice a pattern.  It
>sounded like something binding.  It was loud enough to hear with the top down 
at
>freeway speeds.  The noise was intermittent and I began to notice a pattern: I
>could eliminate the noise by accelerating.  The noise most often produced while
>going downhill, but depressing the throttle usually abated the sound
>temporarily.  The car continued to otherwise perform fine.  And so it was that
>we continued State Line, Nevada, where we spent the night.
>
>I did not play poker.  I had visions of expensive repair work ahead, and began
>looking in the yellow pages of Las Vegas for help.  Lots of it available there!
>I made no calls that night, and went to bed sadly resolved that I really must
>cease to rely on the Tiger for longer trips.
>
>The next morning dawned sunny despite the personal clouds over my head.  We
>packed up the car and drove across the street for gas.  The racket was already
>evident.
>
>Not much to go on, but can you guess what the problem was?  Tip: I fixed it
>myself, in the shade of a parked semi, before we left State Line.
>
>Eddy
>
>
>

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