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Re: FW: HELP!! (weird engine noise)

To: gardner@lwcomm.com
Subject: Re: FW: HELP!! (weird engine noise)
From: miker15@juno.com
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 07:44:45 EDT
On Tue, 27 May 1997 13:19:18 -0600 (MDT) Mark J Bradakis
<mjb@autox.team.net> writes:
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>     Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 23:36:53 +0000
>     From: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
>     Subject: HELP!! (weird engine noise)
>
>I guess all this talk about how well my engine is running must have 
>angered MOWOG, because it's acting up.  My wife took my '72 B to the 
>beach today, and coming back, she said she heard a noise like a 
>wrench being dragged across a chain-link fence.  It's gotten worse in 
>the fifteen miles or so I've driven it trying to troubleshoot it.  To 
>me, it sounds like somebody lobbing BBs into an empty soup can.  Very 
>high-pitched pinging or clinking, not a knocking or thunking.  It 
>sounded like it was coming from the region of the water pump or 
>fan, but it may be farther back.  I can't really localize the 

Scott - Check to see that your alternator has not moved, something may
well be banging on the fins - (been there done that)

mike robson
69 roadster
70 BGT
72 roadster

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