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Re: Funny find while restoring my Rx-7...
Posted by Craig [Email] (more from Craig) on Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:32:12
In Reply to: Funny find while restoring my Rx-7..., Turbo00, Tue, 4 Mar 2008 07:39:55
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Good one! Here's my odd discovery:
The shifter had been squeaking in my '87 9kT going into 3rd and 4th which was pretty annoying, and it was caused by an unexected source. It had been doing this for a while but I just got around to looking into it. It wasn't coming from the shifter itself, so I removed an interior bit to look at the shift rod. There was a big black box rubbing up against it and I didn't know what it was. It turns out it was an ancient cell phone box for an old car phone and must have weighed close to five pounds. I took it out and the car shifts vastly better now. The shifter used to get kind of hung up and I had to force it a bit, but I just figured it was the gearbox getting old. The car also had a really loud resonance or vibration noise above 3k rpm in first gear which is totally gone now. It must have been the shift rod vibrating the phone box thing and it had been doing it for years. I'm glad the car feels and sounds much better now, but it's annoying that such a minor thing had been causing problems for so long. The actually squeek was caused by a trim clip. I think one of the hydraulic motor mounts is going bad again which causes the engine and shift rod to sit lower than it should.
Craig
'87 9kT 304k
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