If you are going to jack up each front wheel & listen you also need to check
for free play. A bad bearing can be loose & sound fine with no load.

Tom
www.towercooler.com

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
neil n
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:27 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: On the road.................a couple of issues!

Bernie.

Your engine was rebuilt recently so I'd check coolant sensor wire at engine.

Front end noise; does it happen driving in a straight line, cornering,
when braking, or all the time?

At the very least you could jack up each front wheel, spin wheel and listen.

Neil.

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Bernie <berniej@gmail.com> wrote:

> *Having a couple of things that popped up yesterday on my 85 Westy.*
> *First thing temperature gauge dropped to almost nothing.*
> *Always would be consistently just below half before and now basically not
> responding*
> *or responding on very intermittent basis.*
> *Second issue is a noise that seems to be coming from front of vehicle.*
> *Don't know how to describe other than a noise produced by friction of
some
> sort.*
> *Could this be wheel bearings?*

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