slowpoke

was at croft yesterday, doing the second session when coming round the left hairpin at the start / finish straight i felt and heard a loud knocking noise, did a slow lap and came in

when driveng back to the service area at low speeds and in straight line there was deffinatley a knocking noise

set off home early so i could limp home, and the knocking noise went but as i got upto 60mph the car started to intermittantly vibrate as if a wheel was out of ballance, some times only small vibrations and other big ones

managed to get it home and driving at 30mph ish the car is ok its when you get the speeds up

any ideas people ???

gracie has helped me out on this AGAIN but cant see anything when we jacked the car up that stood out

help...............matt

p.s. thank you paul youre a star

Mike Rainbird

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Check your wheel nuts haven't come loose (like mine did) .

slowpoke

will do

blatently obvious but you dont think of wheel nuts lol

matt

Mike Rainbird

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I had the same noise and thought I had a wheel bearing gone, but then thought - I bet the wheel nuts had come loose (AGAIN ). I had to explain to the passenger that we would have to limp back for me to tighten my nuts . She did look at me a bit funny .

slowpoke

if it was a bearing on mine surely it would be moaning and groaning when i go round a corner ?

R4N SS

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or you could have snapped a wheel stud or two like i did.

slowpoke

all nuts are tight

what could cause that vibration that wasnt just confined to the steering wheel

Daveyboy

a sticky caliper could cause that as well. Had it on my saph, same as you, was ok at low speeds but used to rattle its tits off at higher speeds! one of the pistons on the caliper was fooked!

slowpoke

these calipers are new tho, only done a thousand miles at the most and are brembo ones

was thinking a warped disc also ?

Graceland

Matt - my money is still on the center bearing, or the front prop

OR at an outside chance, the propshaft donut

Graceland

PS - Matt - everytime I watch "My name is Earl" I think of you - you ARE the bloke in it........




Its definately you

Sticky.

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Check the insid eof your tyres to see if they have any eggs in tehm.

slowpoke

naaaaaaaaah - he has more hair than me frofl

and also i think it looks like the other matt pmsl

slowpoke

checked the front prop and it seems solid

slowpoke

also if it was a majorly warped disc or calliper surely the vibrations would be constant ???

T4T

Driveshaft a strong possibility

dave cos4x4

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must be the tri pod bearing in the front drive shafts.

shame, looking forward to out little grudge match.

Shings

Nah thats Matt bell

dave cos4x4

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must have the wrong Matt.




i know you have nt though.

nothing like Slowpoke.

The Youth.

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deffo check the osf driveshaft, that hairpin has killed loads of cv joints over the years as your at full power on nearly full lock.
I took it easily round there yesterday just in case, then hooned round the rest of the track.

btw,
I hope you wernt too upset to be overtaken by me in my red xr4x4 whilst on track in the mornin m8!!
lol

steve

slowpoke

im very suprised anyone actually saw me on track pmsl

no m8 not at all, not to put your car down at all but i was trying to take it a bit easy as this was the first time these brakes were being used in anger lol plus the front drivers tyre was rubbing on the arch but yours was shifting lol

did look pretty cool when you went past me tho

dave. im sure we will meet next year for our little match, saying that tho the speeds you were doing theres no way i would of caught you

i said this year after it broke that was it now re coroft and track days but we will see for next year

im hoping its something relatively painless like a driveshaft thats gone wrong

gonna drive to gracies tommorow afternoon and see if he can find it

cheers everyone...........matt

dave cos4x4

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hope you sort it.

Matt, my car was sick all day.

nowhere near how it should be.

see you at FordFair,Nat day on the track.

Graceland

My guess is engine mounts Matt - Both of them, bet they are split in half

Sticky.

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I bet he has dropped his wallet again in the footwell

Graceland

Lat I saw of that, he was using it as a chock to stop the car rolling away

Mike Rainbird

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If so, I have some Vibratechnics ones in stock .

slowpoke

cooooonts lol

wonder how you know its engine mounts eh paul lol

matt

slowpoke

how much mike ?

matt

Sticky.

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Mike the next question Matt will ask you is.......

Can you get the engine mounts in Carbon Fibre

Ive seen your carbon fibre fetish Mr Slowpoke

Mike Rainbird

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£68 each + delivery .

slowpoke

pmsl how much is delivery ?

Mike Rainbird

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£7.40 .