DOH!! I should have remembered that one from
experience. Had those goofy wire hubcaps on a Chebby that did that. ![]()
Charles
Burch <warlocke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ok i found out what it was lol this is the
stupidest thing i have 5 rung krager wheels on the car, was on it when i got
it so im not bitching, well yesterday i got to looking at the car trying to
figure out wtf the knocking sound was, well dad said somthing the night
before about the cap on center of the wheel being loose, well i didnt feel
like taking the wheel off so i pulled a redneck stunt lol (yes i am redneck)
took some packaging tape and taped up that cap and drove bout 3 miles and
not a sound cept for when i started to go somthing knockes under hood the
first time taking off unless the engine is warm, but thats to be expected
with a 30 year old car lol anyway thanks for the help fellas
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005
11:19 PM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] weird
noise
I would highly suggest to inspeact your tires first,
tires nowadays seem to
have dead spots. I just bought four new
Discount Tires and on the sides of
them you can see indentations like
they were sitting on a rack since 1990.
Something else you might want
to quickly check is the lug nuts. The reason
why is recently I took a
car to Mike's Muffler Shop here, have given them a
lto of business
since the 90s. These dumbasses didn't tighten up the lugs on
my 72
Ambassador SST wagon, and driving home (and thank God I went back
streets, not I-10 in front of store) I heard this thump thump thump. I
got a
mile home and almost right in front of my house, the rear driver
side tire
fell off, and under the car. I was livid and called them and
they sent a
gopher to jack it up, and put it back on, my car was in
the middle of the
road for about 15 minutes. I never went back either
to Mikes Muffler Shop.
But both of those are two easy things you
can check. Another would be to
take the car to a big parking lot like
mall or church with no people, and go
in circles, brake, turn,
accelerate, and keep ears tuned.
I have not really followed this
thread so just speculating. Something else
could be a big nail, or
possibly the tire has been plugged at some time in
it's life, those
damned plugs will make a thump noise until they wear down.
Another
thing is possibly a brake part like spring gave way.
Eddie
Stakes'
Planet Houston
AMX
713.464.8825
eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.planethoustonamx.com
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