Thanks to you all for your assistance to my husband and the 250. The car
is going in for professional repair tomorrow - and by "professional" I
mean someone who does it for a living. Someone who does it while I go to
work to pay him. After all, this is the end of Triumph season, and I
don't want Roger to spend time in the garage when we have an excellent
Spitfire raring to go.
We drove the TR up and down the subdivision street Saturday, trying to
determine where the noise was coming from, when it did and did not
appear. The most we got was that it's still there. We'll report back to
you all what the problem was.
Again, this list is SO great! Thank you all.
Pat
Dave1massey@cs.com wrote:
>In a message dated 10/8/2005 11:21:01 AM Central Standard Time,
>elliottr@rmi.net writes:
>
>
>>In the mean time a mechanic offered some advice that I thought I would
>>pass on. He suggested that I grease the u-joints, if they took a lot
>>of grease they were probably dry. Then take the car for a short
>>drive. If the sound is gone or changed, it was the u-joints in which
>>case I need to change them. If the noise is unchanged I have greased
>>the u-joints which they probably needed anyway, but then I need to look
>>for another cause for the noise.
>>
>>
>>
>Certainly worth a try but I've seen Ujoints that were so dry that the dry
>side wouldn't take grease. The little passage was clogged. So even if you
>grease them and the noise remains you may still have bad Ujoints.
>
>Dave
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