Re: LRO: Re: Steering "clunk"

From: Todd Ondick (greylildogs@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 14:30:18 EDT

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    Paragraphs, man, paragraphs!

    >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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