Attention: TDR Forum Junkies If this helps someone with this rattle then ve done my job.
Ive been hearing an annoying rattle in my truck since about 2004. It sounds like something rattling on a hollow pipe, or something like that. At first I thought it could be the hitch rattling loose in the receiver. Nope.
Then, I thought it might be the CB antenna waving back and forth. Nope.
Ever since then Ive been positive that it was coming from the front end or under the dash. But, I could never find it. I read on the tdr of a rattle caused by the gear shift linking rattling on something under the truck. And one of the ways to prove that was to push on the gear shift. I tried that and it would seem to quite it down a bit, but maybe not.
Then, since it isnt very loud and I can only hear it at low speed, I ignored it for a long time. But, just driving down a residential street, or off road (or just on a bumpy road), I could hear it and it bugged the hell out of me.
Well, this morning when I filled up, I noticed a screw laying loose next to the gas cap. When I got home and went to screw it back in, I noticed that all of the other screws, although still screwed in, were pretty loose. So I tightened them all. Im keeping my fingers crossed, but I havent heard the noise yet. The proof will be after a longer drive than just a couple of miles.
If I turn out to be right (and I think I am), the filler pipe must have been knocking up against something and telegraphing it up to the front of the truck. Or and least down to the gas tank.
Ive been hearing an annoying rattle in my truck since about 2004. It sounds like something rattling on a hollow pipe, or something like that. At first I thought it could be the hitch rattling loose in the receiver. Nope.
Then, I thought it might be the CB antenna waving back and forth. Nope.
Ever since then Ive been positive that it was coming from the front end or under the dash. But, I could never find it. I read on the tdr of a rattle caused by the gear shift linking rattling on something under the truck. And one of the ways to prove that was to push on the gear shift. I tried that and it would seem to quite it down a bit, but maybe not.
Then, since it isnt very loud and I can only hear it at low speed, I ignored it for a long time. But, just driving down a residential street, or off road (or just on a bumpy road), I could hear it and it bugged the hell out of me.
Well, this morning when I filled up, I noticed a screw laying loose next to the gas cap. When I got home and went to screw it back in, I noticed that all of the other screws, although still screwed in, were pretty loose. So I tightened them all. Im keeping my fingers crossed, but I havent heard the noise yet. The proof will be after a longer drive than just a couple of miles.
If I turn out to be right (and I think I am), the filler pipe must have been knocking up against something and telegraphing it up to the front of the truck. Or and least down to the gas tank.
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