|Date: 7-15-93 2:07pm
|From: Dean Zywicki:dcrt:nih
| To: {british-cars@autox.team.net}:BITNET
|Subj: Strange midget noises
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After searching for a month, I finally found out what was making
the awful noise on my midget. The history of the problem was that I
could hear a horrible grating noise whenever I started from a stop and
an extra clunk on some bumps (not consistently though). On Tuesday
night I finally found the problem. When I started the car from cold, a
lound thunking noise was coming from somewhere on the right(passenger)
side of the engine. After the car ran for a minute, the thunking went
away. Then I noticed that if I pushed on the engine, something metal
was hitting something else metal. I looked and looked but couldn't
find what. So I jacked up the engine under the gearbox and I couldn't
reproduce the metal on metal. I dropped it down until I could reproduce
the metal on metal. Ah hah!!! it's the motor mount!!!! yeah, much
rejoicing.
The problem was that the motor mount had sagged just a bit (brand
new last year, only 2500 miles on it). As a result the nut holding
the mount to the support from the engine block was barely hitting the
metal part of the rubber motor mount. So, I turned the bolt around and
put the nut on the other side and the problem was solved. As a result,
I got new wheel bearings, shocks and rebuilt calipers.
Later,
Dean
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