Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:03:24 -0500
Reply-To: Eric Caron <ericcaron96@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Eric Caron <ericcaron96@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: Westy LuggageRack Noise
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Your speed may very.
I don’t drive, or at least I’m not admitting to it.
In my Bay window days, I told drivers not to go over 65 and try to stay at 60. Many kept it at 65 and down hill even faster. I prefer slower.
In my auto vanagon 60 feels good. But 70 is fine.
In the Manual 84, I’m constantly asking drivers to slow down. 75 is easy for them to go but I try to keep it under 70.
Bay was air cooled most stock 74.
Vanagons running GW 2.3 water boxers.
Going 80 in the vanagons can be reached but I don’t want to do that in this van. I rarely want to do that in a modern car.
70 is a good upper limit, but darned if I can keep people under 70 in the manual 84.
Eric Caron
Eric Caron
, but I
> On Dec 21, 2023, at 4:33 PM, OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
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> Yup, 82,,, Been doing that for years,,, since 2009 actually, when I
>
> swapped in a Subi EJ25,,, but even before that with the 2.1L H2OBoxr
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> I’d do 75+ if flat road & no wind ~
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>
>
>> On 21 Dec , 2023, at 11:33 AM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> 82 mph, seriously? I drive 55 on the highway with the camper.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 9:12 AM OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> Hey JimA
>>>
>>> Thanks a bunch for that,,, Will probably go that route if current
>>> “fix”
>>>
>>> doesn’t last ~ I tried to do KarlM’s “Sit on it” fix but nothing moved so I
>>>
>>> decided that while I had the Lug’Rack screws loose I should lift the front
>>>
>>> edge as far as possible & do a bit of cleaning under there,,, There was a
>>>
>>> bit of junk underneath but not as much as I expected, but while I had it
>>>
>>> lifted I placed a 16in strip of double sided Carpet Tape across the center
>>>
>>> of the roof where it & Lug’Rack make contact,,, Seems quite solid for now
>>>
>>> but will need to do a good long 82mph highway test run to know for sure ~
>>>
>>> ORR ~ DeanB
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 20 Dec , 2023, at 9:51 PM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is what fixed that problem on my ’82:
>>> https://www.busdepot.com/lugseal2
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>>> On Dec 18, 2023, at 6:48 PM, OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I’m experiencing an Extremely Loud noise created by the center of
>>>>>
>>>>> the Luggage Rack lower front lip @ speeds above 70mph,,, Anyone else
>>>>>
>>>>> ever had this & is there an easy long term fix / or any long term fix
>>> aside
>>>>>
>>>>> from not driving that fast or removing the rack ~
>>>>>
>>>>> ORR ~ DeanB
>>>
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