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> My '66 Chevy Malibu makes a weird, whining, screechy sound when I put on the
> brakes while backing up. Sometimes it is much louder than other times, but I
> can discern no particular pattern. It makes a similar, but not identical,
> screech (more like a loud, annoyed, chirp) when I turn the steering wheel
> all the way in either direction. The brakes seem to work fine (I got the
> fronts replaced 2 months ago). The car runs just fine; the screech seems to
> be harmless, if annoying. Could it be symptomatic of something I should be
> worried about? (BTW, the car has about 79000 miles on it.)

I had a '69 Camaro which made a screechy sound when backing up and applying
the brakes.  I was told that the brakes where self adjusting and that was
the sounds of them adjusting themselves.

David Albrecht

> My '66 Chevy Malibu makes a weird, whining, screechy sound when I put on the
> brakes while backing up. Sometimes it is much louder than other times, but I
> can discern no particular pattern. It makes a similar, but not identical,
> screech (more like a loud, annoyed, chirp) when I turn the steering wheel
> all the way in either direction. The brakes seem to work fine (I got the
> fronts replaced 2 months ago). The car runs just fine; the screech seems to
> be harmless, if annoying. Could it be symptomatic of something I should be
> worried about? (BTW, the car has about 79000 miles on it.)

Do you have power steering?  If so, this could be the source of your noise
when you turn the steering all the way right, or left.  I've experienced it
with my cars and contribute it to either a safety by-pass valve opening up
at limit, or to a slipping belt to the power steering pump that slips 
because there is more torque on the pump when the steering wheel is at its
limit.
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				     Albert H. Spinks

> My '66 Chevy Malibu makes a weird, whining, screechy sound when I put on the
> brakes while backing up. Sometimes it is much louder than other times, but I
> can discern no particular pattern. It makes a similar, but not identical,
> screech (more like a loud, annoyed, chirp) when I turn the steering wheel
> all the way in either direction. The brakes seem to work fine (I got the
> fronts replaced 2 months ago). The car runs just fine; the screech seems to
> be harmless, if annoying. Could it be symptomatic of something I should be
> worried about? (BTW, the car has about 79000 miles on it.)

    Are you sure your filbert flange is meshing with your grapple grommet?
    There is a plant here in Canada which make 23000 a day.
    Obviously there will be a few which don't mesh.
    
    :-)    (or something)
    
    Darrin West
    Self appointed critic of life in general.

> > My '66 Chevy Malibu makes a weird, whining, screechy sound when I put on the
> > brakes while backing up. Sometimes it is much louder than other times, but I
> > .......
> > be harmless, if annoying. Could it be symptomatic of something I should be
> > worried about? (BTW, the car has about 79000 miles on it.)
> 
>     Are you sure your filbert flange is meshing with your grapple grommet?
>     There is a plant here in Canada which make 23000 a day.
>     Obviously there will be a few which don't mesh.
>     :-)    (or something)
>     Darrin West

Obviously, it's the framstad on the hootska valve, not the flibert 
flange which incidentally isn't supposed to mesh with the grapple
grommet on a '66 Chevy Malibu. (or the '68 AMC Pacer)     ;+]

					Addison
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