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Scraping sound when moving
Hey all,
Does anybody have ideas as to what's wrong with my car? It's my 82 240D 4spd. The problem, which first occurred today: when traveling over 15 mph, i hear a scrape-scrape-scrape sound coming from the rear of the car. As I increase speed, the scrapes increase in frequency (at 20mph, approx 4 scraping sounds per second). Givens: -CV joints were shot in previous axle; had both axles replaced with new ones 4 days ago. -Had a new e-brake spring installed today. -The scrapes occur regardless of whether the transmission is engaged or not
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1982 240D 4spd, 327,000mi |
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Did you do your axles yourself?
If you have a floor jack, jack up the car and spin the wheel. See if you hear a scrapping sound or have any resistance. I'm guessing you might have a bent dust shield. When I did my axles they were always in the way and a pain to work around. Crawl under and see if anything looks bent or out of place. If it's the parking brake then I'm not sure. I do recall a little spiked knob that you can turn to adjust the location of the boot. I'm typing this on my phone so I can't do a search for you. Try searching for parking brake adjustment and see if anyone has had a similar issue.
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Since you just worked on the emergency brake I, too, would suspect something related...BUT, if not, your problem sounds exactly like the symptoms I had when I had a dragging caliper on the rear driver's side wheel.
Hope you get the problem solved...
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The problem went away after 24 hours of driving. I talked to my mechanic, and it turns out that when he installed the spring, the e-brake was overtightened (if that's the right word) just a little bit, and driving the car wore the pad down just enough so it doesn't make contact or create friction anymore. No more noise, car is great.
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1982 240D 4spd, 327,000mi |
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