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Re: Is this normal??

To: "Lester Ewing" <lewing@sport.rr.com>, <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Is this normal??
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:20:31 -0500 reply-type=response
Cc: "Spridget List" <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
References: <41200412214234818360@earthlink.net> <AE36E694-4EA2-11D9-9DAA-000A95771166@sport.rr.com>
I'm getting in late here, I realize....but check the shock mounting bolts. 
I just cured a rattle in the Meejit by tightening them.....they looked 
tight.....the shock felt tight...but the bolts, they was LOOSE!  So put a 
wrench on them.

Geoff Branch
----- Original Message ----- 
From "Lester Ewing" <lewing at sport.rr.com>
To: <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
Cc: "Spridget List" <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: Is this normal??


> On Dec 14, 2004, at 5:48 PM, Charles Christ wrote:
>
>> hey lester?
>> possibly do you have rocks or something similar in your gas tank?
>> very possible that something is or was dropped into your tank either by a
>> child fooling around or some mischevious person.
>> i'm still purging "mud" from my 67 saabs fuel tank, filter after
>> filter....rotten kids at the porsche shop i got it from!
>
> Well some of the noise comes from the shocks as I can duplicate it by 
> rocking the car side to side.  That said, some of it happens  at slow 
> forward speeds, like the last 20 feet before a stop sign, not engine speed 
> related but forward motion related.  I don't think that it's coming from 
> the diff (Although having worked with front wheel drive cars for over 30 
> years what do I know about rear drive cars.) but  only because the sound 
> seems to come bilaterally..
>>
>> chuck.
>> btw?  you have the top snapped to the rear deck and the metal bar in 
>> place
>> that secures it to the two chrome tear drop shaped pieces?
>
> Yes
>
>> also wich side
>> curtains?  steel framed sewn vynal and clear top window material for
>> windows or aluminum framed sliding plexiglass 2 piece windows?
>
> The Al ones, seems that the tracks or material in them is a little iffy.. 
> any ideas on replacement of the felt in there??
>
>> hmmm, a
>> factory hard top fixes this ya know!  *grin*
>
> I got one of those.. but what is it going to do to the paint?  And where 
> do I get replacement foam and seal?
>
>
> Lester
>
>>
>>
>>> [Original Message]
>>> From: Lester Ewing <lewing@sport.rr.com>
>>> To: <PilotRob@webtv.net (Robert E. Shlafer)>
>>> Cc: Spridget List <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>





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