ELUSIVE NOISE

NZ Truth, Issue 1052, 21 January 1926, Page 16

ELUSIVE NOISE

» ■ How It Was Traced HINT TO DRIVERS A friend called m the other day with a row like seventeen tin cans coming from his front wheels. He took it for a broken hub bearing at the very least, but we had "had some before." It is ■ often amusing to play the innocent investigator, after the case is quite clear, so we requested the owner to jack up his front wheel. He had already set out an array of tools, and while he was getting the jack we eased the speedometer driving sprocket away from the wheel which drives it with the aid of a tyre lever. When' our friend returned the noise was gone. MORAL: Don't put any gear wheels too deeply m mesh; no / matter where they are, timing case, gear box, differential, or outside the car itself, they always produce noise.