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Re: Cabinet squeak
« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2018, 01:51:59 pm »
Hi Ron!

Yes, precisely, Ron.  They held tight for about 9 months.  Now, with a twist of the fan you can hear them pop between the threads of the screw (or one screw).  I chose against machine screws and went with sheet metal screws.  Unfortunately, it made no difference in the squeak.  We swung by PC last summer when I was DETERMINED to solve this issue, and I took about a half dozen pictures related to the front cabinets as notes for the project. Let me see if I am able to successfully downsize the images to here...

Feel free to move these accordingly Ron...

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Re: Cabinet squeak
« Reply #16 on: February 27, 2018, 01:55:59 pm »
A few more.  Some of these are the Sprinter and others the Ford.  They're not identical, but very close.

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Re: Cabinet squeak
« Reply #17 on: August 20, 2018, 11:35:38 am »
Hi.  I want to get back to the group about what I found with my squeak.  After removing the headliner, I found a screw which appears to not have been originally tightened.  I believe this is responsible for the sound of metal popping up and down a a thread of a screw (what I originally thought was a stripped screw).  700 miles later, all has been quiet - yet I do need to give Murphy and his law a bit of room here. ;)  The screw which was the issue is indicated by the red arrow.  The green arrows are the screws that I ran down through the cabinet, similar to Ron's initial idea.

I hope this helps someone.