{"id":3772,"date":"2018-02-01T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2018-02-01T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:00:56","slug":"it-may-look-like-a-walnut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/01\/it-may-look-like-a-walnut\/","title":{"rendered":"It May Look Like A Walnut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And it is a walnut. But walnuts have caused a surprising number of problems in cars compared to other plant material.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3773\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018_02_31_01.jpg\" alt=\"2018_02_31_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This Accord had only a couple thousand miles when it came in for a suspension noise. I drove it over some bumps and heard a clunking from the left rear. After lifting it and inspecting the suspension I couldn&#8217;t find any issues, until I looked at the spring. This walnut was sitting between the lower spring mount and the body, and when the suspension would compress it would cause a clunking noise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1432\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016_09_05_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_09_05_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have seen this same problem before with a walnut in one of the front springs of a car, but that wasn&#8217;t the most interesting walnut-related problem I&#8217;ve seen. A while ago I wrote about a car that <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/2016\/09\/05\/couldnt-shift-into-park\/\">wouldn&#8217;t go into park<\/a>. It turned out that a walnut had found its way onto the top of the transmission and blocked the movement of the shift lever.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it is a walnut. But walnuts have caused a surprising number of problems in cars compared to other plant material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[28,58],"class_list":["post-3772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-diagnosis","tag-suspension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}