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Subject:noise when braking after long run
From:Bill
Date:Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:19:28 -0700

We drove our '81 Westie into Tucson on Thursday.  This is about 80 miles
each way.  Everything seemed normal until after we got to Tucson.  We had
used the brakes when getting off the Interstate, and a couple of times
after that.  Then we missed a light, and I braked a bit harder - still not
really hard.  There was a fairly loud thump-thump-thump repeated several
times, coming from the left rear.  It went away when I let up on the brake,
and did not recur while we drove around Tucson.

When we drove home we had to brake again when we got off of I-10, and no
noise.  We then drove the eight miles to our driveway, and when we stepped
on the brakes to make the turn into the driveway, the thumping again
continued until we let off the brake.  It has not happened again, but we
haven't driven very far since then, either.

Any ideas what this might be?  I hate these intermitant problems.

Thanks,

Bill (SE Arizona) (Bill@freeholder.com) HTTP://www.freeholder.com
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