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Date:         Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:14:39 -0800
Reply-To:     mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Ongoing "Honk" as diesel style starter engages
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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My WAG would be a vacuum leak in the brake booster vacuum system.


Mark




Don Hanson wrote:
>  ....  Every since I have owned it, when the engine catches and the
> starter motor is cut off, there is about a half second of this strange
> honking noise...I  don't really know the right way to describe it, but
> it seems similar maybe to when you take a ping pong ball and squish it
> down with the paddle onto the table...really kind of a brief
> 'squelching' noise, sort of.  Not loud, not alarming, just puzzling.
> Anybody  want to try to guess what might be causing this sound?
>
>
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