Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 13:14:08 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Rear-wheel clunk (possibly) identified
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From what you say then the rear brakes are not likely but I would still not rule them out entirely.
Jim
> On May 25, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Vincent Dow <ianvincentdow@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> well, my rear drums should be REALLY REALLY good.
> They've been gone over by three different shops.
>
> After I had the rears done by Jomags in L.A. last summer, I started getting that clunk in Indiana. But we made it back to montreal, and my preferred garage here too it apart and found that the adjuster was backwards, and it had been dragging the whole 3,000 miles. Also, the fork connection of the adjuster was not joined, but instead ... (how can I explain this?) the fork was resting against its tips.
>
> The clunking kept coming back, so i brought it to Uwe falkenberg, who did my tranny two years ago. He's a German, started working on VW vans in the 70s. He found yet more faults with the reassembly from the 2nd shop. He reassembled them and said he got it right.
>
> My shoes and drums and bearings are brand new back there. Brand new + 3,000 miles.
>
>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How are your rear drums and shoes? Flopping shoes sound this way, too, when they hit the backing plate, and are very difficult to diagnose without disassembly. Not a deep clunk like a bagging axle though.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>> On Wednesday, May 25, 2016, Vincent Dow <ianvincentdow@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Since last summer I've been experiencing a puzzling, intermittent clunk
>>> from the driver's side rear.
>>>
>>> I had the rear brakes serviced by a shop in L.A. There were a bunch of
>>> issues with that, but one of them was a very audible TOCK TOCK TOCK TOCK
>>> sound... the frequency of which corresponded to wheel speed.
>>>
>>> I only heard this sound when the van was warmed up from highway driving.
>>> And then starting from a stop, or climbing a grade.
>>>
>>> My girlfriend came across this thread that deals with exactly what I have:
>>>
>>> http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=387993&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=axle++noise+fit&start=0&sid=cb5f768858f53fec27c75037b66837cf
>>>
>>> Seems to indicate an overlong CV-stub axle... that bunches up (I guess) and
>>> hits the hub. An absence of thrust washer between the hub and the CV might
>>> be the cause.
>>>
>>> Is anyone familiar with the thrust washer as spacer at the CV and hub?
>>> Tomorrow going to bring it up to Carrera motors and put it on the lift. May
>>> just get the CVs greased while I'm at it - I leave cross country on friday!
>>>
>>> vinnie
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