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Old 10-14-2013, 11:12 PM   #459
kodyo
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Originally Posted by tracerit View Post
i drove my car from LA to SF and noticed one thing. When it was warm during the day, zero to minimal noises, then when i'm up in near SF when it got colder and around 6pm, man the noises were so bad. Confirmed the next trip when I went from SF back down to LA (noises near cold SF to nothing midway).
Same thing here.

Did three things that seemed to have helped quite a bit. We'll see once it gets cooler.

1) Make sure the trunk emergency release pull is secured. I used a piece of double sided tape to keep it from tapping.

2) From the trunk, find all the spot welds you can and use a small flat head to wedge between the two pieces the weld is holding together (don't be rough, shouldn't yield metal). Then I sprayed some WD 40 on each weld and then did the same thing again to work the WD40 into the seam. Seems to have helped. If it doesn't, I'll redo with a proper grease.
Basically this but did it from inside the trunk, not removing all that stuff to do this:
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44636

3) This tweak:
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42065
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