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Re: [TR] a new clunking noise

To: Bob Labuz <yellowtr@adelphia.net>, triumphs@autox.team.net,
Subject: Re: [TR] a new clunking noise
From: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:52:26 -0400
Thanks for the quick repsonse, Bob.

On 25 Sep 2007 at 20:12, Bob Labuz wrote:
> There couldnt be enough vibration to cause one of those plates
> to loosen at least not without ripping a hole in the tank skin.

Ah, maybe those 1.8g turns I took going around the Bourne rotary 
coming home from Cape Cod last weekend?
 
> Is the gas gauge still working?

I believe so.  The guage has had a peculiar behavior for a while but 
I think it still works the same way it did.  [It reads lower than it 
should as the fule level drops but reads correct when the tank is 
full.  I would think a bad float would read low with full tank too.  
It did this once before but when I cleaned all the lectrical 
terminals it seemed to read okay again.  So I've interpreted it as 
lectrical.  Anyway, it seems to be the same now as it was last week.]

> Did someone put a golf ball or other foreign object in the tank?

Hmmmmmmm.  When I got gas on the way to the Cape the non-drip spout 
seemed to hang up in the cap, and when I pulled it out it kept 
dribbling gas like a runny nose.  I wonder if something from the gas 
nozzle fell off into the tank!

Tanks again.



-- 
Jim Muller
jimmuller@rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+



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