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ZaraSpOOk
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DEC 04, 02:19 PM
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I'm curious if anybody else has left this stuff out.
The last time I did a cradle drop I left it out and still haven't put it back in. Probably about 500 miles
I rarely drive mine anymore, it never sees anything except clean dry local pavement. In fact it has never been driven in winter.
Even so, I'm sure grit gets kicked up by wheels, anybody gone without for an extended period of time?
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Wichita
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DEC 05, 01:39 PM
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You are talking about the drape liner or splash shields for the rear wheel well?
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theogre
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DEC 05, 05:48 PM
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The inner fender well and splash shield keeps a lot of road crap and polluted water out/off of the cradle, engine including the belts, and more.
Want belt noise and worse problems?
Drive thru even 1 dirty puddle can cause belt problems w/ or w/o noise problems because allows more crap to get on them w/o splash shield at bottom of inner fender.------------------
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
(Jurassic Park)
The Ogre's Fiero Cave
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Australian
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DEC 06, 01:32 AM
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Mine are smoothly glassed in one of the things i did was spend as much time making my body kit smooth under the car.
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ZaraSpOOk
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DEC 08, 06:20 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Wichita:
You are talking about the drape liner or splash shields for the rear wheel well?
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no idea what you are talking about
the wheel wells have a bunch of crap I'm going to call "wheel well liner" on a 1988, don't know if it's the same as previous years
it's all out, whatever it's called, I don't know what the point of taking only some of it out would be, different strokes for different folks I guess
could be put back in, probably with a little more effort than it was taken out
I guess one benefit of putting it back in would be that it isn't taking up space stored in my garage
not so sure about the claim about protecting the cradle and belts, the alt belt made noise off and on long before the liner was ever taken out and is still original
I bought a spare about 20 years ago thinking it was going to fail, I'm sure it will eventually
One guy asked me if that noise was a supercharger, LOL[This message has been edited by ZaraSpOOk (edited 12-08-2021).]
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