![]() 03/09/2017 at 10:03 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
Out riding my bike yesterday in the wind and someone asked me if I could listen for an “odd” noise coming from the rear of the vehicle.
Hmmmm. I bet you can hear it too.
It’s short but I couldn’t talk him into driving it around the block for me so I could shoot a longer video.
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Were they like “Yo, Lemon Law Guy! Can I return this defective 20-year-old minivan? The clutch pedal is stuck!” #lehtofacepalm
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bet one or both of the return springs broke inside the brake drum, and the shoes are binding everything up.
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Oh dear
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I’m no mechanic, but I think there’s something wrong with it.
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Interestingly, the guy had no idea what I do for a living.
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In my head, I always imagine you as a local celebrity :D
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I tell most people I meet that I am a writer. They think that’s neater than being an attorney, I’m sure.
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Looks like that tire is low on air. That must be it!
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Besides the obvious elephant in the room, I have often noticed that this generation of Mopar vans tend to make an assortment of random noises when they’re idling at the school pick-up yard, ticking and wheezing and groaning—all noises that our Odyssey doesn’t make (its VTEC yo sounds pretty good at 5000 rpm though). Just 2000's Chrysler parts? Or bad owners?
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ah, the ol’ stick in the spoke gag
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Yes, rear tire is not spinning. Please stop driving it before someone drags a hole through the tire.
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LOL that’s a new one!! Recently, I was asked to look at a colleague’s brakes because they were “making a funny sound.” The pads were bare metal and it screeched like a school bus.
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This happened to my car a couple of weeks ago because Napa sold me the wrong brake rotors. I eventually figured it out after dragging my rear tires around the garage.
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Almost sounds like a really nice burnout. Totally normal.
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that’s wise, nobody gets asked to work “off the clock” more than mechanics, police officers, and attorneys.
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the ticking- assuming you’re referring to that “errrrrkk” as you come to a stop- is the ratcheting solenoid packs in the transaxle; all Ultradrive-architecture transmissions do that by design.
the groaning is the accessory belt tensioner.
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Makes sense. Noisy beasts, those vans.
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note that I’m not saying the tensioner should be making that sound, it’s just that they eventually all do that.
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They all probably do at this point. Throwaway cars, those Cloud Cars, LH Bodies, and their related minivans.
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That’s a good thing. Did you ever tell him that his wheel was locked up on that corner or did you just let it slide?
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“So did you hear the noise?”
Steve: “yeah, I dunno what that is, you should probably get it looked at though.”
That’s bad, I don’t think I’ve ever even heard of a failure like that. I guess either the caliper locked up or the wheel bearing.
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I had the same thing happen to one of my vehicles a while back. A caliper got stuck closed on a disk. Shrieked like the devil.
Somehow he got it rolling a little later in the day. Not sure what it turned out to be.