[DeTomaso] Squeaky suspension

[The DeTomaso Registry Guy]

Jack,

4348... Nice car.  I like the CHP photo you sent - grin.  Looks like
interstate 5 (where the speed limit SHOULD be 100, and it would still be
safe, hell the flow of traffic is around 90, almost TEXAS style.)

When I rebuilt my suspension (long ago) I made the mistake of only lightly
coating the bushing with "Anti-Seize" compound.  And now my suspension has
begun to squeak occasionally, when warm and 'exercised'.

Liberally is not lightly

Chuck


-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Jack Donahue
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 9:04 PM
To: detomaso at poca.com
Cc: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Squeaky suspension


Pantera Gurus:

My car squeaks. I have to assume it's the suspension, I think. As the years
go by, I finally joined POCA and found THE LIST. I read it daily. I had
initially brought up "bleeding the cooling system" and got 96 comments. Now,
I feel like I have a much better understanding of the Pantera cooling
system, especially bleeding. Anyway,  I've not noticed anyone talking about
squeaky suspensions, so I guess I had better ask: why does my car sound like
the doors in a haunted house?  (as I creep diagonally over a speed bump, for
example). It's a temperature-related creek. I can get in the car, back out
of the garage, creep over a small gutter, and through a dip as I enter the
street. Quietly. When I come back after driving, that same pattern in
reverse is embarrassing, if nothing else. When I drive back in you'd think
you are in 10 haunted houses as I creep diagonally back through the small
gutters and dips. So what gives? A-arm bushings? If so, how so? What is
expanding with the heat to make that sound? It just makes common sense that
1) it's the suspension, and not some inherent defect with the whole chassis,
and 2) it's metal expanding somewhere. 
Jack
#4348
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