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Old 11-26-2012, 01:05 PM   #26 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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Originally Posted by PaleMelanesian View Post
This may be a silly question, but did you check the brake disc shield behind the front discs? I bumped mine when I replaced the half-shafts, and it was scraping on the back of the disc.
Thanks for this and your PM. I didn't check, but I will when I go back into this, maybe this coming weekend. But I think it's unlikely, since the sound is pretty much unchanged. A friend on facebook from a Bonneville racing family suggested maybe its some sort of "transfer bearing" in the transmission, connecting the drive axles to the gearing. But he agrees the hub bearings, the "races", are the most likely culprit. I'll test more this weekend and report. Thanks for following the tale.
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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