Just a diversion from Laverda stuff. I went out to buy lunch today and noticed immediately a very loud rhythmic banging from the rear of my Car. I pulled up thinking flat tyre, nope. Got down and looked at the U joints and rear drive shafts, nope. Drove the half block home and had another look and found a metre length of thin Stainless tie wire hanging out of the right side rear tyre wall; one end was sticking 10mm into the tyre and the rest was whipping around as the wheel turned. So random, happy it's an easy fix. Didnt even puncture the tyre.
Odd Car Noise.
- Thread starter Vince
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chrisk
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- Brisbane, Australia
Alone in the Victorian high country on my IT250 it started bogging down, I’m thinking it was the piston nipping up 
clutch in and it slid sideways to a stop.
Wrapped around the back wheel was a mess of rusty fencing wire. Presumably picked up going through a creek crossing
Unraveling the mess was harder than expected, so decided to remove the wheel…. fail.
A couple of 4x4’s came along and we decided to tie a rope (way before webbing straps were around) to a tree and around the frames down tubes. Another rope to the rear wheel of the IT and the other end tied to the Nissan Patrol.
It took 4 wheel drive before the wheel came free.
I’m guessing 10mt of fencing wire was pulled from the wheel. Lots of scratched up parts, but surprisingly nothing broken.
clutch in and it slid sideways to a stop.Wrapped around the back wheel was a mess of rusty fencing wire. Presumably picked up going through a creek crossing
Unraveling the mess was harder than expected, so decided to remove the wheel…. fail.
A couple of 4x4’s came along and we decided to tie a rope (way before webbing straps were around) to a tree and around the frames down tubes. Another rope to the rear wheel of the IT and the other end tied to the Nissan Patrol.
It took 4 wheel drive before the wheel came free.
I’m guessing 10mt of fencing wire was pulled from the wheel. Lots of scratched up parts, but surprisingly nothing broken.
Andy
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- Auckland, roughly
My father-in-law was a tractor contractor for a while. One of the first lessons he learned was not to run the rotary slasher over that patch of really long grass in the corner of the paddock...Alone in the Victorian high country on my IT250 it started bogging down, I’m thinking it was the piston nipping up
Wrapped around the back wheel was a mess of rusty fencing wire. Presumably picked up going through a creek crossing
Unraveling the mess was harder than expected, so decided to remove the wheel…. fail.
A couple of 4x4’s came along and we decided to tie a rope (way before webbing straps were around) to a tree and around the frames down tubes. Another rope to the rear wheel of the IT and the other end tied to the Nissan Patrol.
It took 4 wheel drive before the wheel came free.
I’m guessing 10mt of fencing wire was pulled from the wheel. Lots of scratched up parts, but surprisingly nothing broken.