clicking noise on '68

["jsadowski" <jsadowski@xxxxxxx>]

Try switching hubcaps & see if it makes a difference. You do want them to fit tightly, as the 66-69 caps are very heavy & tend to fly off at the slightest jolt. If the balancing weight is contacting the spring clip, that would probably account for the noise.Have them put on the correct way.

John

----- Original Message -----

From: Mark McDonald

To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 4:13 PM

Subject: IML: clicking noise on '68

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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