[TPR] Riddle me this... noise, shocks and weirdness

Sun Mar 27 04:47:24 PDT 2011

Dang, Asa. Hate to hear that news. :o((  I'll check today & see if I've
still got the original Telecars that I replaced several years ago off of my
car. I had taken the spacers out of them & they were working fine at the
time but I decided a good winter project would be to replace them & all my
suspension bushings at the same time so that's what I did. If I kept
them(CRS?) I'll be happy to give them to you..........I'll check today & let
you know!

Rowdy Bob

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 7:44 PM, David in Durango <adin at frontier.net> wrote:

> First thing, disconnect (one at a time) the shock from one end.  You should
> be able to find the source of your problems.
> after that, it only takes money . . .
>
> good luck.
>
> David
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Asa Jay Laughton" <asajay at asajay.com>
> To: <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 8:14 PM
> Subject: [TPR] Riddle me this... noise, shocks and weirdness
>
>
> > First day of Autocross was today.  Test & Tune, practice and blow the
> > cobwebs away in the head.
> >
> > So I know the Pantera needs a new alignment, now I know it even more.
> > But that's not the real concern here.  Some of you may recall I was
> > chasing an interesting clunk in my front end a while ago.  Well, it's
> > never really gone away.
> >
> > The steering rack bushing has been replaced, and it sure feels solid.
> > All bushings and ball joints have been replaced in the a-arms.  Now here
> > are the interesting parts.
> >
> > When I visited Dennis Quella week before last, I walked through all this
> > with him,  Then he asked if I had original shocks on the car, which I
> > do.  He then mentioned there are some internal "bits" (as Mike Drew
> > would say) that "break" if the suspension is left hanging on the
> > shocks.  This is the position most of our cars are in when we are doing
> > a lot of work on them for extended periods of time.  (listening Frank)
> > I tell him I have original Telecars on the Pantera.  He says he can't be
> > sure, but I might want to check that out as a source.
> >
> > Fast forward to today.  About my fourth run on the course today, I start
> > hearing a nasty thunk anytime I radically change direction, like in a
> > slalom.  I'm starting to get worried now.  Did I break an a-arm tab?
> > Did I break a sway bar mount?  What!  (yea.. it's driving me crazy)
> >
> > I get home and just got back from inspecting the front end.  Wouldn't
> > you know, everything looks -solid-.  But wait for it...
> >
> > I push down on the front bumper and... nothing.  No movement.  So I pull
> > -up- on the bumper and get about three inches... and it -stays-.  I then
> > do the hip hula with the front fender and can't get any weird noises.  I
> > push the bumper down... it goes about three inches and stays.  I do the
> > hip hula on the fender and get all kinds of nasty noises... apparently
> > from the shocks?
> >
> > Okay, so I'm Mr. poor boy here, yea yea... you've all heard that sad
> > story.  A kind soul sold me what they thought were Konis, which weren't,
> > so I subsequently sold them because I couldn't get them rebuilt in the
> > states (turned out to be a foreign brand).  So then some kind soul sent
> > me a set of "practically brand new" Telecars, which looked in worse
> > shape than those already on my car.  Swapping a couple of them didn't
> > seem to make the noise go away and I really can't say I'd prefer
> > swapping another set of Telecars.
> >
> > <sigh>
> > so..... does anyone out there have a set of known good shocks they'd be
> > willing to "loan" me for about a month so I can determine if this is
> > really the root problem or not?  I'm sure you can probably get them
> > packed in a Large Priority Mail Flat Rate box (it's how I shipped those
> > off brand shocks).  I  hate to beg.  If I had more Pantera people close
> > by, it probably wouldn't come to this.
> >
> > More highlights from today...
> > - I was the first person to "spin" on the course today, it was actually
> > a bit of fun even though I took out a few
> > cones.
> > - I totally -ate- a cone on exiting a bus-stop gate... so much so that I
> > brought it all the way back to grid.  On the upside... the license plate
> > is much more aerodynamic now.  :)
> > - The car ran -great-!  The bit of tuning I did late last summer seems
> > to have made runs a lot smoother.
> > - The new graphics look awesome.  Photos to come later.
> >
> > Alright, who wants to loan me a set of shocks?
> >
> > Asa Jay
> >
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> > Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
> > &  Shelley Marie
> > Spokane, WA
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