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Subject:squeak be gone
From:Bob Whitby
Date:Sat, 13 Apr 2002 09:21:06 -0700

Background: I had a squeak in both front wheels, increased with speed, kind of like having a sparrow flying at window height every where I went. At the advice of listees, which I'll be honest I considered a ludicrous waste of time, I rotated my wheels front to back. The squeak has now moved to the back where the kids will have to suffer with it. Fine with me. I still cannot fathom why tires would ever squeak. My theory was that it was not the tires but the mounting bolts working loose, and that removing a wheel and re-tightening the lugs was the cure. I was wrong. It's either the tires or the wheels, and either one of those possibilities is astonishing, you know like "either we are alone in the universe or we aren't."

Squeaky tires. What's next, engines in the trunk?
Bob W.
'87 Westy