As a few of you may have read from my couple previous posts, I'm a newb to both the Tahoes and this forum. But I just had to post this, and I promise on Monday the picture will follow.
Backstory: Just bought a 99 tahoe about 2 weeks ago. Anyway, just working on getting the kinks out, and for the most part everything is going nicely.
BUT.....Yesterday, I was on my way to a customers home during evening rush hour. It was in the area that I grew up (a.k.a boondocks). I said, I'm outta here, jumped off the freeway and had a little fun on the back country roads.
On the way home, I've got the window down, I hear a "clanging" sound. I thought maybe I'd knocked the exhaust loose on the backroads. It sounded like hollow metal bouncing around.
Today, I try to find the issue. I can't. When the truck isn't moving I can't recreate the sound. So I take it up to a Muffler/Auto shop. Asked them to look at it. (10 minutes before quitting time).
I convince the guy to take it for a spin....He comes back and says "It's your brakes"
Throws it up on the hoist....tire off, drum off, and VOILA! There it is.
It doesn't have a brake bad on the rear drivers side!!!!!!!!!!! It's not hooked to anything. The previous owner literally took a coat hanger and strapped it down. When I went down the dirt roads, it obviously knocked it loose and started clanging around.
I was so shocked at what I was looking at that I didn't even think to take a pic with my phone. I'm going out of town tomorrow, and I'm taking it to the shop on Monday to have it taken care of, I'll post the pics then...
Oddly enough, I said..I bet you've never seen that before? The mechanic said, Yes I have..
Backstory: Just bought a 99 tahoe about 2 weeks ago. Anyway, just working on getting the kinks out, and for the most part everything is going nicely.
BUT.....Yesterday, I was on my way to a customers home during evening rush hour. It was in the area that I grew up (a.k.a boondocks). I said, I'm outta here, jumped off the freeway and had a little fun on the back country roads.
On the way home, I've got the window down, I hear a "clanging" sound. I thought maybe I'd knocked the exhaust loose on the backroads. It sounded like hollow metal bouncing around.
Today, I try to find the issue. I can't. When the truck isn't moving I can't recreate the sound. So I take it up to a Muffler/Auto shop. Asked them to look at it. (10 minutes before quitting time).
I convince the guy to take it for a spin....He comes back and says "It's your brakes"
Throws it up on the hoist....tire off, drum off, and VOILA! There it is.
It doesn't have a brake bad on the rear drivers side!!!!!!!!!!! It's not hooked to anything. The previous owner literally took a coat hanger and strapped it down. When I went down the dirt roads, it obviously knocked it loose and started clanging around.
I was so shocked at what I was looking at that I didn't even think to take a pic with my phone. I'm going out of town tomorrow, and I'm taking it to the shop on Monday to have it taken care of, I'll post the pics then...
Oddly enough, I said..I bet you've never seen that before? The mechanic said, Yes I have..
