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Re: Noise from engine compartment

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Subject: Re: Noise from engine compartment
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:05:47 -0700
Oh yeah, that reminds me. My radiator fan was very noisy until I replaced 
the rubber grommets. This is the 3-blade metal fan. I suppose the 77 
won't have this problem... but I can see the alternator fan as a 
possibility.

David Ambrose had this to say:

>
>This is probably the alternator fan. Mine started with an intermittent
>tinkling which developed into full time tintinabulation. The front
>bearing wears in the direction of the load and the shaft gets out of
>alignment.
>
>Regards,
>Dave
>
>
>Edwin Vaughan wrote:
>> 
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> Yesterday afternoon I pulled into my drive way, shut off my '77 MGB and
>> noticed a sound like a table saw makes when the power is shut off (kind of
>> a slinnngggg chang chang chang). I thought something might be fouling one
>> of the pulleys. I popped the hood and found nothing. I started the car up
>> and shut it off again....no sound. This morning after driving the car 10
>> minutes, maybe, I shut it off and the sound was there, just muted. Again
>> this afternoon, after driving for about 10 min., I shut the car off, it
>> ran-on or dieseled for a couple seconds and the sound was more chunky. The
>> alternator is not loose and the fan pulley is not loose. What could this
>> sound be?
>> 
>
>
>> TIA,
>> 
>> Edwin
>> '77 B
>> 
>> "I try to think but nuthin' happens"|       The MG Filling Station
>>        -- Curly (the stooge)        |   http://www.auburn.edu/~vaughme
>


--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
Runs great, 
looks particularly bad since some SUV clown backed into it.
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.


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