--- "Faure, Marin" <Marin.Faure@PSS.Boeing.com> wrote:
> Could be the springs banging back and forth in their shackles. My
> SIII did this from the day it was new, so I learned to ignore it.
Hang about there...you say what now? Neither of my series trucks does
this. Although there is an interesting squeaking sound that apparently
comes from the rear suspension, but only when the truck is stationary,
and the occupants are not moving. It is a long drawn out squeak, kind
of like when the improperly torqued down cap of a 2-liter plastic soda
bottle is trying to pass a bubble, and you hear it and go "what the
hell is that?" to yourself, or to whoever else happens to be within
earshot of said escaping bubble's symphonic release. Then you realize
there's a 2-liter plastic soda bottle on the table in front of you or
perhaps somewhere else in the room, or in the next room, and after
checking in the torque specifications section of the manual ha ha you
apply the necessary additional rotation to the 2-liter plastic soda
bottle's previously improperly torqued cap. Which has the immediate and
oh so final seeming effect of seemingly foiling the bubble's escape,
although I suspect that it may actually continue escaping, albeit more
quietly, due its detection by those who would seek to prevent said
emancipation. If you don't know the sound I'm talking about, then you
probably don't drink soda out of 2-liter plastic bottles. However, this
is all very long winded and besides the point, which was, and remains,
that if your Rover's bushings are banging around in tthe shackles,
there is something wrong, and just because they've clunked (or banged
or popped or made any other noises that could remotely be indicative of
metal to metal contact then non-contact then contact again, etc.) since
new does not mean that something is not wrong. Can you ignore it and
not have any long term or expensive or just troublesome problems down
the road (said road being both figurative as well as literal)? Yes.
Should you? That is up to you. Would I? What do you care? My parents
owned a Pontiac Phoenix, which had the same body as a Chevy Citation,
that they bought new in 1980. It stalled at almost every stoplight, or
so it seemd to my wandering 11-year-old mind, as my mind's wanderings
were constantly interrupted by streams of muttered parental anglo-saxon
at every occurence of the stalling, and the car was in the shop
repeatedly for weeks on end as the dealer tried to sort out the cause
of the problem. So just because a problem/symptom/feature exists since
the date of purchase of the vehicle, it doesn't mean that it doesn't
demand attention or perhaps even fixing or repairing of some sort.
Although I suspect the response to this from Marin- should he choose to
respond to such an inane, unrelated-anectdote-filled and roundabout
criticism of a seemingly hardly assailable logic, i.e., that of
ignoring the clunk in the suspension of a Series Land Rover, would be
that if the Land Rover stalled every time he drove it, he would have
had them fix it, or fixed it himself, and that my bringing that up as
an example was a terrible excuse for a parallell, in fact, more like a
perpendicular, and that seeing as I was only 11 in 1980 which makes me
only 31 now, that I am young and ignorant or something to that effect.
Although now I am putting words in the mouth, or on the screen if you
will, of others which I didn't really set out to do, as much as it may
have seemed so due the apparent confusion over the central point of
Marin's message that I seem to have had, which now that I am aware of
it makes me wonder why I bothered to type this thing in the first
place, or rather, why I continued to type it after realizing the flawed
nature of my argument and its related parental-Pontiac anectodte.
Which, by the way, for those who are curious- and to those I say "Go
outside and get some fresh air because there is no reason on god's
green earth that you should care about this,"- the point where I
relaized the frivolity of my complaint was before I started the very
pointless- as I have pointed out repeatedly- comparison between one of
the sounds my Land Rover's suspension makes and the sound of a bubble
trying to escape from a 2-liter soda bottle. I would be interested to
hear from other owners who have experienced the same sound, the one
from the suspension, not the soda bottle. Although if you'd like to
tlak about the soda bottle sound, or any other sound or really anything
at all then please feel free to do so. As a matter of fact, if you've
read this far and haven't wanted to strangle me, I'd really like to
hear from you. If you do want to strangle me, I assure you it wouldn't
be worth the airfare to get here. Or the half gallon of gas if you're
in my area. Or Metro fare. Or the rubber or other material off the
soles of your (very nice I'm sure) shoes.
later
daveb
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David Foster Wallace
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