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Subject:=?utf-8?Q?Re:_Another_thing_I_didn=E2=80=99t_know_about_my_van?=
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:00:19 -0700

So i ran out , after reading this...

Btw, glorious warm evening here on the island.

Checked the top nut on front shock. It’s good.

I had installed new shocks in the last year so it was possible.

I think it’s time for me to lean out the open slider as someone else drives

> On Apr 14, 2021, at 6:53 PM, Gene P <olgreywoof@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> This time I have to say it.  I chased a random clunk/rattle, ‘like a wrench left in a cavity’ or like a sizable stone have gotten caught somewhere that rattled occasionally.  You said not suspension, but … mine was a loose right front shock mount.  Everything was in place, but there was no nut on the top.
>  
> From: Alistair Bell
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 6:42 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Another thing I didn’t know about my van
>  
> It’s close to that point now Mark.
>  
> It’s a funny kinda rattle, clunking. It’s really becoming a moby dick thing with me :-)
>  
> >> Partly because I needed too, and partly because I have this rattle or light clunking noise at times.
> >>
> >> It’s not, I think , suspension components, but something else... like a wrench left in a cavity :-)
> >>
>

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