No talk of bearings here, but worth having a look. Jack up each tire and
see if there is any play left to right and/or up and down.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 6:53 PM, SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott ) <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> hi Vince..
> for $ 649 you'd think the parking brake would be working at the end of
> the job ..
> or they'd at least tell you it 'needs more' in that area.
>
> A block with the parking brake on shouldn't hurt much.
> I don't especially think you have this going on ..
> but I have seen a rear brake drum on a vanagon, new ...made in
> you-know-where that was out of round by a half mile ..
> and had a huge balance weight tacked to it, that fell of easily ..
> in other words, new, it was junk.
> Some change that happened on your recent brake job is my point.
>
> the drums I get are usually made in Europe ..often Italy, and work well.
>
> CLOCK CLOCK sounds on acceleration ...
> glad you had a successful trip, but that should get checked out for sure !
>
>
> On 9/15/2015 9:46 AM, Vincent Dow wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>> We got into Montreal last night, after eight nights driving from Los
>> Angeles.
>> We did (almost) all two-lane roads,
>> except the I-15 (L.A. to Vegas)
>> and the I-80/90 (Chicago to Gary) (Cleveland to Penn border)
>>
>> Total cost of accomodations: $35 ($10 for a spot at Hovensweep national
>> Monument, UT and a KOA at Grand Island, Nebraska)
>>
>> Modesto, my 1982 AirCooled-to-subaru conversion did splendidly. Water temp
>> stayed at 185 degrees the whole time.  Even climbing Wolf Creek Pass in
>> Colorado!
>>
>> My rebuilt trans with the 4.17 4th gear is great. Pretty much cruises at
>> 70mph.
>>
>> Interesting discovery - Our favorite sleeping position in the van is lower
>> bunk with heads at rear. Pop-top up, so we can stash all our our bags up
>> top - the van looks bigger that way - an illusionof three separate rooms.
>>
>> Only issue was my recent brake job at JoMag in Los Angeles. The brake
>> pedal
>> pumps and oscillates with varying pressure. There began a knocking sound
>> from the driver's side rear wheel drum - but only on acceleration. As I
>> wound the motor up through 1st, 2nd 3rd, I'd hear a CLOCK   CLOCK  CLOCK
>> CLOCKCLOCKCLOCKCLOCKCLOCK... When I got into 4th and cruised it seemed to
>> go away. Caused more stress and anxiety than anything else.
>>
>> I think this must have been handbrake related. The handbrake has lost
>> almost all it's grip. There is pressure when I pull it up, but the van
>> will
>> still roll.. Sucks. Was expensive job too. $620
>>
>> I admit that I backed out of a space and drove half a block with the
>> handbrake on - but that shoudn't ruin the handbrake outright? Maybe it
>> did.
>> The brake pedal was doing that pumping thing before. I even returned it to
>> mauricio at Jomags to fix it before we split L.A. And he said at the time
>> YOU DROVE WITH THE HANDBRAKE ON!  I SAW DEEP GOUGES IN THE DRUM. But that
>> time he was wrong. I didn not drive with the H.B. on the first week I had
>> it back from the garage.
>>
>> This was the best vanagon experience I've ever had. Best roadtrip I've
>> ever
>> had. We're making a slideshow of the travels, and I'll post a link to it
>> soon!
>>
>>