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From: [email protected] (Jerry Bowman)
Subject: Re: Help!!!(With Buick Regal)
In article [email protected] (Gerry Vahe) writes:
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>HHHEEELLLPPP!!!!
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>---I'm Going crazy. I have a 1981 buick regal with over 100,000 miles on it.
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>Just recently, when I go Over a bump of any size, The rear drivers's side of th
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>e car feels like there is something hitting the floor board. The noise is ampli
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>fied when I am going around a corner when there is less weight above the tire wh
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>en I hit a bump.
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>I had the whole brake drum off today, checked under the car to see if th
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>e muffler was hitting or something and I cant seem to find anything at all. Eve
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>rything seems to be tight.
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>---Any Ideas? Could it bee a shock absorber? Is there any way I can tell?
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>Anything will help and be greatly appreciated
>-gerry
Check out the shocks where they mount, at both ends. if you have
the type that have a loop?,from lack of a better term, and a bolt like
piece sticking through, there should be a rubber bushing between the loop
and the bolt. Is it there ? is it crushed and allowing metal to metal
contact? I hope you can make some sense of this. Good Luck.>
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