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Re: Clunking and Jumping

To: "Philip Hubbard" <phubbard@carroll.com>, "MG List" <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Clunking and Jumping
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 08:01:47 -0400
On 5/24/98 11:33 PM so and so  Philip Hubbard said. (And I quote)

>Mike Robson posted a response to a suspension question that spurs my
>curiosity for further info.  Sounds like something I might need to look into.
>
>Seems that my car jumps all over the road, especially after hitting a bump
>or series of bumps.  I just put that down to it being a Midget which isn't
>going to stay put like a 4,000 pound car.  I could live with that if it is
>the way things are.  If not, I want to fix it.  Sounds like maybe a
>suspension problem.  It feels like the back end whipping about.
>
New or rebuilt shocks should fix this. May also be the soft bushings that 
hold the rear springs to the axle.
>Now the clunking.  I've been driving a lot this weekend so now I am
>experiencing all sorts of potential problems.  In the past 2 days I have
>heard a clunk about 3 times.  It's very noticeable (loud) and seems to be
>coming from the passenger's side of the car.  The first two times I was
>sure it was the back end, but the last time had me wondering.  Other than
>the jumpiness, nothing seems out of sorts.  Oh, I can't remember what I was
>doing the first time I heard the clunk, but the second two times I was not
>going very fast.  Once decelerating to a stop and the other time
>accelerating away from a stop.  I think the first time was at low speed
>pulling away from the gas pump and turning.  I've never heard it at speed.
>
U-joints, u-joints, u-joints.
>

Larry Macy
78 Midget

Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104


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