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Subject:Re: Strange noise?
From:Tim Demarest
Date:Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:34:23 -0500

Check inside your brake drums (or at least check your brake fluid level).

I actually found a leaking rear wheel cylinder from rear-wheel noise.

Brake dust + fluid formed 'drops' of deposits on inside of drum, this made 
a pinging/grinding kind of sound as they passed the shoes. Stepping on 
brakes quieted the sound.

YMMV, of course... but if someone had told me I could find out about a 
leaking rear wheel cylinder by *hearing* it, I'd have thought they were nuts.

At 08:42 AM 3/21/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>Had a noise like dry CV and repacked them.  Noise still there.  Happens on
>accel but not on decel.  Noise level is not consistant and varies quite a
>lot.  Loudest when first starting out in the morning.  It still sounds like
>a cv that someone didn�t grease pack but they looked fine on inspection and
>are now fully packed up.
>
>Any suggestions?
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