[Shotimes] FW: "Hillman - " Off Topic - High miles...

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And you thought you had high mileage SHO's!!!

Dave R.

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From: owner-hillman@can-inc.com [mailto:owner-hillman@can-inc.com]On
Behalf Of Alkon
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:50 PM
To: Hillman List
Subject: Re: "Hillman - " Off Topic


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Sounds like my Ford Taxi. (97 Falcon wagon )
650,000km, everthing is so so loose. Drives ok on smooth surfaces but gets
all "squirrilly" if you get unreasonable and expect it to negotiate bumpy
surfaces or use those brake things.Groans , creaks and rattles like you
would expect from a geriatric Ford. :-))
Good news is I get a new one on new years day, can hardly wait.

Where do you stop with replacing parts??? Jacking it all up and trying to
see where the looseness is can lead you astray as often you take the load of
ball joints etc and the apparent loosness or wear isn't as bad as it
appears. My experience has been that wear in tie rod ends, steering rack and
strut rod bushes can cause vibration under braking. Some cars seem more
prone to this than others.
 The last thing you replace will be the cause of the problem :-))

Keith
55 Californian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Eyerman" <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
To: "Alex McGregor" <awmcgregor@shaw.ca>
Cc: "Hillman List" <hillman@can-inc.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 9:46 AM
Subject: "Hillman - " Off Topic


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Bad tie rod ends will indeed cause a pulsing brake pedal

Jan






Alex McGregor <awmcgregor@shaw.ca> wrote:
This message forwarded by the Hillman List.

My daughter and her '89 Ford Probe arrived for Xmas today.  Of cource it was
oil
change time.  While under the car I found a lot of bad things, barke pads
and
rotors, inner tie rod ends, bald tires (that should have been ok from
milage)
etc.  etc.

Anyway, I repaced the pads & rotors, the rest is yet to come.  After doing
the
brakes  I gave it the test drive.The brakes feel like the NEW rotors need
turning (pulsing pedal).  I took that damn thing apart 3 times to clean hubs
etc.

Dumb questions:

Can the other bad stuff, tie rod ends, cause this or should I be whining to
the
supplier and buying the rest of the parts from another source?  Or should I
be
waiting 'till I do the other stuff?  For any Canadian's on the list, the
brake
parts came from Crappy Tire.

Car has 250K kilo's.  Tie rod ends are $75 each, for $225 I can get a
'rebuilt'
rack including inner tie rod ends.  Good idea?

My apoligies for bombing the list, but this list seems to willing discuss
stuff
like this, so I hope I won't get flamed.

Thanks in advance.

Al

59 Minx covertable,     (Summer daily driver, where summer lasts 3 months)
S1 Alpine                     will run someday
daughtet's 89 Probe
son's 86 Ranger
wife's 03 Escape
my 88 Topaz (non summer daily driver) that I'll trade for a pint of damn
near
anything (water excepted)


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