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From: "Jacobs, Greg" <JacobsG@bentleycompany.com>
Subject:RE: "Metallic Buzz" please help!!!
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 10:27:00 +0000


Do it right.............go to a muffler shop and ask them to spot weld
the seam. This is how it came from the factory and it should run you
about $10.00....I had the same problem about a month ago. No big deal. 


Team: do it right or don't do it at all

> 	Gregory S. Jacobs	   			    
> *	Network Administrator                              Enron Energy
> Servcies
> *	voice:  (510) 945-3500 ext 550	      1777 Botelho Drive,
> Suite350
> *	e-mail: jacobsg@bentleycompany.com	       Walnut Creek, CA
> 94596
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Fireball27 [SMTP:Fireball27@aol.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 30, 1998 5:10 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	"Metallic Buzz"   please help!!!
> 
> To the collective wisdom:
> 
> I had the common buzz that occured right around the 3500rpm mark.  I
> showed my
> dad, the mechanically adept one, the little printout and he said that
> he could
> just pry the heat shield out a little, and that should stop the
> buzzing.  And
> that did fiz the buzz, at 3500 rpm anyway.   But now i have the same
> buzzing
> sound, only louder, from around 4600-4900 RPMs.    Any advice on how
> to fix
> this would be greatly appreciated.     
> 
> TIA
> 
> Ben Foltz
> Team - Funny Noises


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