[DeTomaso] Squeaks

[Rob Dumoulin]

It could be your dash is squeaking and needs to be tightened. On the
passenger side, remove the glove box and tighten the mount straight up from
the opening. On the driver side, if you are flexible, you can get to them
from the floor laying on your back. If not, take your tach and speedo out.

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 2:30 PM, <tmshinro at aol.com> wrote:

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>  Well I put in some hours working on the car the past three days.  I think
> I lost 10 pounds because our weather has been like a sauna.  I replaced my
> broken clutch arm, I (think) I finally corrected the grounding problem that
> caused my temp gage to be erratic and show random hotter temps than what
> other signs showed they were, installed a high pressure switch for my newly
> installed A/C compressor/drier and replaced the original condenser fan with
> a pancake fan.
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> The temp gage ground appears to be fixed by replacing the barrel connector
> of the gage wire that slid over the threads of the sender stud with an
> eyelet connector sandwiched in between two nuts threaded on the stud.  Bob
> Radefeld had mentioned at the Summer Summit that this worked for him when he
> was tracking down a bad ground.  Bob also pointed me to the right place to
> get the pancake fan for my condenser.   Thanks Bob!
>
> With my new compressor/drier, fan, and the system charged with R12 I'm
> seeing 38 degrees at the vents inside my garage with ambient temp of 85
> degrees.   I know that it won't be that cool when I get it in the sun.
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> When I replaced my clutch arm my clutch was smoother than it had been for
> some time.   I thought I finally solved my clutch issues that I have been
> having on and off for the last two years.   Unfortunately an extended test
> drive yesterday I found after about an hour the clutch became "sticky" again
> and was very marginal.   By sticky I mean that after the first half of the
> pedal stroke, resistance builds and I hear and feel the pedal grabbing on
> something.  Checked the car this morning (the next day) and after an initial
> pedal push with some of this grabbing, the clutch is again smooth.  I
> increased the clutch stroke by backing off the slave pushrod about one
> thread.  At this point I have minimal free play.   I'll take it out again
> today to check out how the clutch and A/C work and report back.
>
> Back to my subject description.   When I was out on my test drive yesterday
> with temps in the low 90s with very high humidity, I noticed that I got a
> lot of squeaking around my windshield when I went over bumps.  I've noticed
> squeaking before but not to this degree.   I've hear that it was common for
> our cars to sqeak but I thought I see what others say.
>
> Tom
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