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Car Forum / Jeep / February 2007Found Front TJ Rubicon Rattle
After changing U-Joints and many lifts and checks for worn shocks, exhaust, motor mounts all else under the front. I found the rattle~~~ one bolt missing from skid plate under driver seat side. The plate did not seem to move but I guess trans torque and bumps made this seem to come from the right front. All is silent now I hit the plate with a 2x4 and could not make it rattle. Word of advise check skid plates when strange rattles occur. Don Cool, it took me twenty years to find a squeak in my Bronco, until I finally noticed the telltale rust around a bolt holding a fender on. God Bless America, Bill 0|||||||0 mailto:LWHughes3rd@aol.com http://www.billhughes.com/ > After changing U-Joints and many lifts and checks for worn shocks, exhaust, > motor mounts all else under the front. I found the rattle~~~ one bolt > missing from skid plate under driver seat side. The plate did not seem to > move but I guess trans torque and bumps made this seem to come from the > right front. All is silent now I hit the plate with a 2x4 and could not make > it rattle. Word of advise check skid plates when strange rattles occur. Don  SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > After changing U-Joints and many lifts and checks for worn shocks, > exhaust, motor mounts all else under the front. I found the rattle~~~ [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > with a 2x4 and could not make it rattle. Word of advise check skid > plates when strange rattles occur. Don Reminds me of a buzzing noise that was in the ZJ. I looked around. Checked every darn thing I could think of. Then discovered it was a snap on a jacket I had laying on the floor. heh. >_< SignatureDougW > > After changing U-Joints and many lifts and checks for worn shocks, > > exhaust, motor mounts all else under the front. I found the rattle~~~ [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Checked every darn thing I could think of. Then discovered it was > a snap on a jacket I had laying on the floor. Back in the seventies we found an extra long screen door type spring, and stretched it across the back of the seat in the wrecker at the garage where I worked. At 55 mph it made the most fearsome rattle that they may still be trying to figure out. Earle >> After changing U-Joints and many lifts and checks for worn shocks, >> exhaust, motor mounts all else under the front. I found the rattle~~~ [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >heh. >_< Can't tell you how many times I've pulled sh.t outta people's trunks that was causing a "rattle in the front end". Damn squeeks and rattles are why I finally quit the dealership after 19 years. -- Old Crow "Yol Bolsun!" '82 FLTC-P "Miss Pearl" '74 XLH chopper(gone but not forgotten) BS#133, SENS, TOMKAT, MAMBM SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com While working at a GM dealer back in the early 80's a friend of mine tracked an illusive "thunking" sound to a large hex nut suspended inside the passenger door on a piece of wire! Someone was having a bad day at that assembly plant! Highcountry proclaimed: > While working at a GM dealer back in the early 80's a friend of mine > tracked an illusive "thunking" sound to a large hex nut suspended > inside the passenger door on a piece of wire! Someone was having a > bad day at that assembly plant! The above folklore was more commonly rendered as someone being driven nuts by a rattle from their megapriced Italian exotic, only to finally have it traced down to a tobacco can with a ball bearing and a note inside: "So, you finally found it you rich capitalist pig" after having essentially ripped the body apart. > The above folklore was more commonly rendered as someone being driven > nuts by a rattle from their megapriced Italian exotic, only to finally > have it traced down to a tobacco can with a ball bearing and a note > inside: "So, you finally found it you rich capitalist pig" after having > essentially ripped the body apart. Completely unrelated but my old man used to tell the story of pulling apart airborne radar systems down in Texas late in WWII. They didn't want guys doing field repairs on some stuff but the old man dug in anyway. Got pretty far into one set and found a note that read "if you're in this far you're f.cked". But he got it fixed anyway. My uncle had a '53 Studebaker when I was young and he would always complain about the rattle on the right side. One winter his right side window got off the track and he took the car in to have it fixed. The dealer pulled the door panel and discovered a 8oz Coke bottle and a crumpled up piece of wax paper. Lunch break at the Studebaker Plant. :-) >> After changing U-Joints and many lifts and checks for worn shocks, >> exhaust, motor mounts all else under the front. I found the rattle~~~ [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > heh. >_< SignatureFRH >My uncle had a '53 Studebaker when I was young and he would always >complain about the rattle on the right side. One winter his right side >window got off the track and he took the car in to have it fixed. The >dealer pulled the door panel and discovered a 8oz Coke bottle and a >crumpled up piece of wax paper. Lunch break at the Studebaker Plant. :-) Had an old body style s-10 Blazer come in one time with a rattle in the door. Had about $90 worth of change in the door pocket. Took the door panel off and about $15 had found it's way through a crack in the panel into the bottom of the door. He bought *my* lunch that day. -- Old Crow "Yol Bolsun!" '82 FLTC-P "Miss Pearl" '74 XLH chopper(gone but not forgotten) BS#133, SENS, TOMKAT, MAMBM SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com If my cell phone charger and my wallet are in the glove box on my 00 XJ, it makes the worst squeak in the world. Carl > After changing U-Joints and many lifts and checks for worn shocks, > exhaust, motor mounts all else under the front. I found the rattle~~~ one [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > could not make it rattle. Word of advise check skid plates when strange > rattles occur. Don >If my cell phone charger and my wallet are in the glove box on my 00 XJ, it >makes the worst squeak in the world. That's the wallet opening and closing...wrap a rubber band around it<g>. -- Old Crow "Yol Bolsun!" '82 FLTC-P "Miss Pearl" '74 XLH chopper(gone but not forgotten) BS#133, SENS, TOMKAT, MAMBM SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > After changing U-Joints and many lifts and checks for worn shocks, > exhaust, motor mounts all else under the front. I found the rattle~~~ [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > and could not make it rattle. Word of advise check skid plates when > strange rattles occur. Don Had a rear rattle for months that finally turned out to be a worn out lower bushing on one of the rear shocks. Many people looked for that rattle until I noticed it while it was hanging wheels down in an oil change. Tomes |
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