All Day Goatroping.
As I have some extra long day trips coming up, I wanted to take today to fix the rumbling sound in the truck.
I presumed it was a bearing, I am fairly used to the sound. So, since I have a spare, I swapped it. That was about noon.
it’s sort of pathetic that I can do the whole job in under an hour. A testament to how often I’ve done it, no doubt.
Same noise.
I have free lifetime rotation and balance on the truck tires so I had that done, the tires were a bit out of balance, same noise.
I change the brakes. Same noise
I changed the bearing BACK. Same noise. I changed the bearing on the OTHER SIDE, same noise. I topped off the fluid in the differential. Same noise.
I’m, laying under the front of the truck with my flashlight, looking for anything that could be making the noise. I notice a weird wear line on the iner sidewall of the left front. They only rotate radials front to back, so this had to have come off the back. So i get on my tortured knees and crawl around to the back, and the bracket holding the Ebrake cable in place has come loose and it’s rubbing against the tire. I wrap some wire ties around it, and the noise is gone.
Damn. An all day goatrroping I could have fixed in five minutes with a piece of string. Sonofabitch. Well, live and learn.
I swap parts on vehicles to make a living.
Goatropes such as yours only happen on days ending in “Y”.
Usually involves calling a dealership parts person and giving him the VIN rather than researching the parts myself and calling him with part numbers.
Reminds me of many a Saturday working w my dad on his series of get to work cars from a 62 Chevy to a 71 gmc.
Hmmm. I’ve got a strange noise in my front end. Might have to start looking at the other end for the problem….
Some days you’re the dog, some days you’re the hydrant.
The living wonderment of co-existing with motorized vehicles.