Bob Prosser

Friends, if you have ever stripped the interior of your 911, I could use really your input:

I hear a tiny metallic "c-click" sound coming from an area under/behind each seat, and/or near the base of each B-pillar.

The sounds are triggered by inertia, and heard only during stop-and-go situations:
- At rest, the clicks happen the moment the clutch is released and the car moves.
- Once rolling (under 10 mph), the clicks happen the moment the brakes are applied.

It sounds like two BB's inside a small tube. Tip the tube and you'd hear "c-click" as the BB's roll/hit/stop the end.

I've searched high and low and find nothing obvious. Seat belts work fine and their ratchet mechanism makes a different sound. I tried isolating the jump seat's seat belts, by stuffing the area with towels, but there was no change.

This is my daily driver, so it's getting to me. ANY ideas are welcome! Thanks.

pgrunwald

Did you see this thread on Pelian?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showt...hat+where+cash



Paul
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'87 Targa

lewis9113.2

Do the seat adj. switches work?
There are ball bearings in these switches....if the switch is bust, then the ballbearings might be rolling about in the case.

Bob Prosser

The answer came quickly with some help from the guys on Pelican Parts. I ended-up pushing a little grease deep inside the seat rail tracks (with a Q-tip). This helped to keep the ball bearings in place that the seat rolls back and forth on. Although this is an image of an older seat, it helps show where I am talking about.

zdek

Here's what more than likely happened. After reinstalling your seats, your rails were not perfectly alligned (front to back) and the lock for your horizontal seat adjustment clicked in under the inertia. This happened to me and it's really difficult to get the two rails perfect so that the locking teeth ingage everytime. The ball bearings could also be the cause - they'll make a different sound than the teeth though. Good Luck!

Bob Prosser

Thanks, but when my seats lock, they go "CLACK!," and I am talking about a very subtle "c-click" -- it sounded like a few BB's rolling in a tube, and apparently, if it's the track's bearings, I wasn't very far off.

Peter Zimmermann

And I thought it was the FBI's tracking device watching your every move, recording every trip done at more than 90 mph, watching every time you winked at a member of the opposite sex not your spouse, every time that you tried to get away with putting lower octane gas in the car in order to save a couple of bucks, every... oh man, I hear somebody outside my wind... aaagh...

zdek

true - in your case I think it was those bearings. I still need to fix the clack under my seat...

Bob Prosser

Pete, I think there's an air bubble in your lithium drip. Ask your nurse to give it a light tap, and the black 'copters and triangular UFOs will go "voop." Don't ask me how I know.

theiceman

...er I think Petes bearings are coming loose... I think he needs to be repacked.. and by the way was that a plane that hit the Pentagon ?

Peter Zimmermann

LOL! I thought I heard something when I turned my head quickly - now where did I put that lithium...

A really funny story. About 20 years ago I had a really strange client. When at the shop he kept looking over his shoulder, and his eyes darted like a fly in a room full of lights. On the day his car was in for a major, he pulled me aside and said, "Look for a device." I said, "Huh?" He said, "You know, a device. One of those things that tracks where you go..." I said, "Oh, one of those devices." He said, "I think it's near the gas tank..." I said, "Do you think it emits a beep?" And on went the conversation for another minute. We never found his "device." Beep...beep...beep...beep...
Pete

Jeremy Cottrell

I once had a client who insisted that there was a "device" in his speedometer.

theiceman

So what is the word for Paranoid when you are right ?