Question

[Christopher Hoffman <imperial67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: IML: Question

With the car cold, crawl underneath with a flashlight. Look for things that can move that are close to other things, and then look for shiny metal indicating that contact is being made. For example, where the exhaust routes over the rear axle. Or where the suspension parts approach other items. That'd be where I'd start...

Chris in LA

On 3/19/04 8:19 pm, Quint Villanueva (Qlv@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> I am in need of some advice.
> When I drive my 1953 Chrysler Custom Imperial, at times, when I am making a turn or a bend in the road and or I drive over a bumpy spot in the road, I hear a hollow noise, like something is rubbing against some hollow metal, like a trash can would sound if it were rubbing against metal.  That's the best description of the noise that I can give.  It happens intermittently, not all the time.
> At first I thought it might be the car bottoming out and I was in need of new shocks.  I was ready to buy a set of four gas shocks but decided, after reading so much good advice on the IML, that it would be prudent for me to put this on the IML site and let you all take a shot at diagnosing the problem.  Heck, maybe it isn't the shocks at all...although I'm pretty shore I have to replace the shocks anyway.
> Anyone have any ideas of what may be causing that noise?
>  
                                    Quint