Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:13:54 -0800
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Clunk goes the rear wheel
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dear clunk
little brother reports from under the van that with a little more light and
if it would stop raining -- he could see the axle turning ... he suggests
that the worker doing the stuff on the vehicle may have thought he needed
to disconnect an axle to get at what ever he was working on -- little
brother says people with out service experience on the vanagon .. and
people with out the work books often attack a problem in a way that looks
good to them ... it is often wrong methodology -- little brother upon
further investigation suggests that once we stop driving through the barn
yard -- oh how he hates that part of the vehicle check-- once we stop -- he
will reach up to where the half axle is fastened to the transmission ...
and there he will try the allan screws to see if each is tightened properly
-- or if they are even there as maybe over tightening broke one or two off
...
and if the ones at the tranny are tight he will reach into the space behind
the wheel and try those same screw types there ... as there are two which
are very hard to get right ...
regards
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Sondergaard, Arlene <asonder@usgs.gov>wrote:
> It felt like the rear right wheel stopped briefly.
> Just a feeling, I guess it could be the whole back end.
> I had a front end realignment last week.
> Also last week a shop replaced the water pump and rebuilt the power
> steering pump.
> My van is an automatic.
> Standard vanagon engine.
>
> Thanks,
> Arlene
> Wolfsburg 1987
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> dear clunk
>> depending on the year of the vehicle and the size of the engine there
>> could be other things going on ...
>> is it a transplant power source ... how long ago ... did work get done
>> one the vehicle recently ... maybe the worker did something to the rear
>> "wheel" to help or investigate an issue ... were you going around a corner
>> when the thump occurred - there may be something in the rear area that
>> swings out and slaps the wall of where-ever when it swings back into
>> place...
>> maybe the rodents in your vehicle are having a domestic dispute and are
>> tossing the bits of furniture at one another ...
>>
>> maybe your wheels are about to fall off ...
>> are you sure the sound came from the rear wheel area ... and if so why
>> are you sure that is where the sound comes from ...
>>
>> often i get my little brother to ride on the back bumper upside down and
>> with his head under the rear of the van ... i re enact the scene ...
>> freeway or what ever the driving conditions were (he really dislikes the re
>> enactments in the farm yard) ... then when the sound or occurrence we are
>> in pursuit of happens again i slam on the brakes and stop .. right there
>> ... so he can tell me what is going on when it happens ... not ...
>>
>> sorry i got carried away ... :) actually we put the vehicle on the hoist
>> and run it up in the air and then simulate actual driving conditions ...
>> somehow that does not sound any safer than the little brother method ...
>>
>> regards
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Sondergaard, Arlene <asonder@usgs.gov>wrote:
>>
>>> On the freeway this morning the passanger side rear wheel clunked like I
>>> hit a rock. It happened 2 more times. Got off freeway to examine tire.
>>> Pressure around 45 tire, looks normal, grab and shake-no give. The belts
>>> look o.k. Drive the backroad the rest of the way to work for lower
>>> speeds and i happened again 2wice. What could be going on?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Arlene Sondergaard
>>> CVO Sediment Lab
>>> 1300 SE Cardinal Court, Suite 100
>>> Vancouver, WA 98683
>>> 360-993-8943
>>> asonder@usgs.gov
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> roger w
>> From Proverbs:
>> Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
>> servant who becomes king ...
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>
>
>
> --
> Arlene Sondergaard
> CVO Sediment Lab
> 1300 SE Cardinal Court, Suite 100
> Vancouver, WA 98683
> 360-993-8943
> asonder@usgs.gov
>
--
roger w
From Proverbs:
Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
servant who becomes king ...
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