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Hi

I did suffer "clonking" which I could notice at low speed gentle acceleration and sometimes deceleration. This was categorically down to loose spinners. I have a painted set of wire wheels and it turned out there was enough of height variance where the spinner sat on the painted hub that over time the spinner(s) would loosen off. Paint was ground back and spinners put back on with appropriate amount of thumping with mallet and spinner saver. Big thanks to the team at MWS who helped to solve the problem.

So if you have wire wheels you may want to give the spinners a few decent thumps, ideally with the wheel off the ground first and then back on the ground to finish off.

If you have wire wheels, hope that helps
Cheers
Neil

Edit - I forgot to note but when it first started my thought was that there was play in the calipers or some issue with the prop shaft.