The chirping hubcaps were a very rare option on the 1968
model year only.....
No. Just kidding.
Try putting a piece of electrical or duct tape on the
splines where you think it's rubbing. It is possible that
the cap was dropped, and the tines are not flared out
enough to grip the steel of the wheel and are slipping
slightly due to inadequate sprung tension. A crescent
wrench should facilitate bendign them outwards for tighter
fit.
Also: inspect the wheel to see of it shows scatchy wear
(bare metal) in one place. This may give a clue relative
to the valve cap as to where your "special option" wheel
covers are currently engineered to generate sound.
-Kenyon
--- Mark McDonald <tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi folks. Ever since I put those amazing new Wondertires
> on my '68 I
> have noticed a strange clicking coming from the left
> front side
> (driver's side) wheel. It sounds almost like a very
> small stone caught
> inside the hubcap, but it's not.
>
> I have removed the hubcap and the sound goes away, so I'm
> convinced it
> has something to do with the hubcap. But I have shaken
> the living
> daylights out of the hubcap itself and nothing happens.
> No sound. So I
> don't think anything is loose on the hubcap--??
>
> I asked them to put the balancing weights on the inside
> rim of the wheel
> and the guy put them on the outside rim, but reversed, so
> that the
> weight itself is under the hubcap. That makes me think
> that the weight
> is somehow preventing the little springlike claws in the
> hubcap from
> digging in firmly, and as the wheel turns that causes a
> slight clicking
> noise. But that's just a guess.
>
> Anybody ever experience this? It's driving me nuts.
> Imperial wheels
> should not go "tick-tick-tick" when they turn.
>
> Thanks, Mark
>
>
>
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