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Re: Whistle

To: "Frank Clarici" <spritenut@Exit109.com>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Whistle
From: "Biff Jones" <biffjones@erols.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 21:52:31 -0400
Reply-to: "Biff Jones" <biffjones@erols.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Frank,

You said its somewhere in the right front,  could the whistle be
coming from those "expensive" center hubs you installed on your
new wheels?  One of those chain link fence post tops could be
causing it.  Try polishing up that casting a little more or
remount it with some silicone...oops, forgot "we tight"  Try some
bees wax........

Biff, AN5, 'Kermit' & HAN6, 'Ole Gray'

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, July 11, 1999 7:38 PM
Subject: Whistle


>Fellow side curtain drivers
>
>I have a whistle in my Bugeye that starts at 45 mph and goes
away at 60
>mph.
>This is a whistle that sounds like it is coming from the right
side.
>The top is off and no side screens on. I can not find it. My
wife tried
>blocking the antennea, cupping all corners of the windscreen,
door
>opening, even what she could reach on the back side of the
bonnet. Still
>whistles. It is not coming from under the windscreen rubber.
>It was not there last year, it has been there since I installed
the
>sloted wheels.
>Could it be the slots? That is the only difference to the car
but why
>only one (right front) wheel if it is the wheel?
>It sure sounds like it is coming from the antennea but I would
think
>cupping hands all over it would find the whistle.
>For a cure I just go faster then 60 but I have to go thru the
40s and
>50s to get there and sometimes traffic does not allow 65+.
>It is driving me nuts, it is a high pitched whistle most
annoying @ 55
>MPH!
>Any Ideas?
>--
>Frank Clarici
>Toms River, NJ
>Bugeye Sprite
>67 Sprite
>59 A40
>http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut/


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