Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:30:12 -0800
Reply-To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Dream: Lost my Vanagon; a new muffler, and other news
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Hi Neil,
We looked pretty closely at all the bushings and they all appear to be
fine. Yeah, it's low-ish miles, like, uh (dashes outside to check odo) 81k
miles. There's something fishy going on, and it will either get so bad
that it breaks, or it will drive me mad, eventually.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR
On 2/26/2010 11:40 AM neil n wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Rocket J Squirrel
> <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Crikey. I wish my brain could come up with less stupid stuff to deal with
>> when I'm asleep, but no -- this morning I awoke in the middle of a dream
>> in which I was searching for Mellow Yellow in a partially-empty mall
>> parking lot. I hadn't even parked it very far from the store's entrance,
>> but there I was, combing aisle after aisle of cars, in the rain, wondering
>> when my family would start to wonder when I was gonna get home with that
>> gallon of milk.
>>
>
>
>> While the van was up on the lift he had another go at locating the source
>> of the "thunk" sound that occurs (mainly but not only) in second gear
>> (auto transmission) only when cruising on level pavement and just when the
>> foot comes off the gas pedal. When the drive train unloads, there's this
>> very audible "thunk" that sounds from under the vehicle. Ears say it's up
>> front, but that can be misleading. Nothing found wrong with wheels,
>> bearings, CV joints, motor mounts, tranny mounts, Canadian mounts, rear
>> suspension, front suspension, veeblefetzer fittings, or the steering
>> hawsers and levers. Rocking the vehicle fore and aft by hand causes the
>> tranny's park pawl to click a bit, but that's all. It's a head-scratcher.
>>
>>
>
>
> I managed to "lose" my wallet last night. Had spare Westy keys in it.
> T'weren't no dream that I might have lost my Westy, though I suspect
> that any crafty thieving types would have been stopped short since the
> starter battery is currently disconnected. Thankfully London Drugs
> called me this morning to let me know where my wallet was.
>
> Mr. Squirrel.
>
> Far fetched, but since you're doing work on front end... are the
> radius arm bushings in good shape?
>
> My mysterious "clunk" happened when parallel parking. Turns out it was
> a well worn radius arm clunking in an ovaled hole in subframe.
>
> http://sites.google.com/site/tubaneil2/RadiusArmBolt2.jpg
>
> http://sites.google.com/site/tubaneil2/RadiusArmHole2.jpg
>
> Just a thought, though I bet yours are fine. (IIRC you have low-ish
> miles on your Westy?)
>
> Neil.
>
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