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Subject:Re: Clicking in Wheels - Ideas of why?
From:Thom Fitzpatrick
Date:Wed, 8 Feb 1995 23:09:50 -0800 (PST)

>OK, so now I got another wierd thing going on with my '86 Westy.
>It is a heavy clicking that seems to be comming from the wheel(s) that is 
>rotational (it speeds up when I do) and then goes away when there appears 
>to be enough rotational speed to keep whatever it is in place. This is 
>not a heavy metal sound, but neither does it sound "tinny".

I had the EXACT same thing on my '56 bus after I did the front
brakes, and new wheel bearings cleared it up.
 
I had packed the old ones liberally enough to make Rush Limbaugh cry,
but it hadn't helped.

Thom
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