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Re: [oletrucks] Thumping sound

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Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Thumping sound
From: "Charles Culver" <sculver@iwl.net>
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 12:45:38 -0700
Now why didn't I think of that when I was 10 years old?

Smokey
'50 3600 5-window

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Lake <lakek@oit.edu>
To: tcape <tcape@weblnk.net>; Oletrucks <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Thumping sound


>This may sound stupid, but do you have hubcaps?  About four years ago my
>neighbors kid put a rock inside the hubcap.  Between about 10 and 50 mph it
>made this annoying thud-thud-thud.  Above and below that speed it was
>quiet.  I wouldn't have caught it until I rotated tires, but the neighbor
>was telling me how his kid put a rock in a hubcap on all of his vehicles
>because he thought it sounded "neat" (so much for the amusement of a 10
>year old).
>
>Kevin Lake
>56 GMC Suburban/napco
>
>----------
>> From: tcape <tcape@weblnk.net>
>> To: Oletrucks <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
>> Subject: [oletrucks] Thumping sound
>> Date: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 7:53 AM
>>
>> My '47 is making a thumping/clunking sound when the truck is going above
>10
>> mph and I can't seem to identify where it's coming from.  It sounds like
>a
>> wheel is loose, but when I checked, they're all tight.  The sound is the
>> same with the clutch in or out.  Another thought I had was that it might
>be
>> a wheel rubbing a fender, but I don't find any evidence of that.  Could
>it
>> be a wheel bearing?  Anything else I should check??  TIA
>> Tom Caperton
>> '47 2nd 3100
>>
>>
>> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
>


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