[DML] Re: wheel bearings

[Peter Lucas <lucas@xxxx>]

At 8:50 PM -0700 9/29/99, delorean502@xxxx wrote:
> 2. when I reach 65MPH or so my windshield starts to vibrate near the
> top by the driver. anybody have the same thing? anybody know what to
> do about it? I don't know if it IS the windshield, but its coming from
> that area.
>
> Erik Geerdink

I recently successfully cured a rattle that had been driving me 
bonkers. It seemed to be coming from *everywhere*, I couldn't 
localize it. Finally, my 12 year old son said that he thought it was 
the roof. Bingo! The place where the lip on the front of the 
T-shaped piece of stainless hooks under the body piece above the 
windshield was loose enough to allow the stainless to rattle in the 
wind. (This is just a lock-fit--there are no fasteners between the 
roof and the car at this point.) I removed the stainless T-panel, 
glued a thin piece of soft foam rubber to the bottom front of it (the 
whole width of the front, just behind the lip), put it all back 
together, and we're now quiet as a Lexus (well, almost).

As a side note, if you decide to remove your roof panel, note that 
there is a screw on each side (accessible from the top of the door 
sill, near the torsion bars) that is not mentioned in the removal 
procedure in the service manual. You won't be able to remove the 
panel until you loosen them.

--Pete Lucas
VIN 6703

--pete