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carchitect
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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   20th April 2010, 4:52 pm

Here's some of the things I did to diagnose my clunk which I fixed this past weekend

1)remove front sway bar and end links and go for a ride. Your car will handle like poo but you won't be hurting it. A lot of serious drag racers (LX platform) take them off. If the sounds go away then I would start by replacing the sway bar bushings as they are the cheapest, in fact I have some practically new ones I can give you. If not replace the endlinks. They have balljoints in them all it takes is a little bit of movement in the wrong direction for them to make noise.

2) if that doesn't do it replace the tension struts. almost everybody has had issues with these, they are relatively cheap and easy to replace. I did mine last weekend and it was a breeze. They had maybe ~1mm of looseness in them and that alone made it sound like my front end was falling apart.

Are you sure it's not your tie-rods? We can take a look at those too.
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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   20th April 2010, 9:36 pm

Ok, I just finished replacing my sway bar bushings and sway bar links on both sides. Still making the noise, I'm at a loss as what to do next!!! The bottom bolts on the sway bar links had to be grinded off. I even tried heating them up with a torch to the point where they were almost melting and I still couldnt get them off. Any ideas??? I think tomorrow I might take it to Firestone and let them figure out whats wrong, and then fix it myself.

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 2:43 pm

Shawn1112 wrote:
Ok, I just finished replacing my sway bar bushings and sway bar links on both sides. Still making the noise, I'm at a loss as what to do next!!! The bottom bolts on the sway bar links had to be grinded off. I even tried heating them up with a torch to the point where they were almost melting and I still couldnt get them off. Any ideas??? I think tomorrow I might take it to Firestone and let them figure out whats wrong, and then fix it myself.


on the endlinks did you hold the nut still with a box or open ended wrench (i usually let it brace up to the body or suspension component) while rotating the stud with a 10mm (iirc) socket?
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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 3:50 pm

did you take it in yet shawn??

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 4:10 pm

carchitect wrote:
Shawn1112 wrote:
Ok, I just finished replacing my sway bar bushings and sway bar links on both sides. Still making the noise, I'm at a loss as what to do next!!! The bottom bolts on the sway bar links had to be grinded off. I even tried heating them up with a torch to the point where they were almost melting and I still couldnt get them off. Any ideas??? I think tomorrow I might take it to Firestone and let them figure out whats wrong, and then fix it myself.


on the endlinks did you hold the nut still with a box or open ended wrench (i usually let it brace up to the body or suspension component) while rotating the stud with a 10mm (iirc) socket?

No!

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 4:16 pm

ghost wrote:
did you take it in yet shawn??

Just took it to Firestone, and they cant pin point it. I had to sign a waiver so they could put my car on the lift, because they were afraid to touch my car. lol The guy that test drove my car thought maybe the sway bar was bad, but after they lifted the car up he said it looked fine. The only thing they could come up with was bad strut mounts. When the rocked the car up and down the guy said he could see the inside coil of the strut mount. So I said go ahead and fix it, because I dont feel like fucking with it anymore. They refused, they are afraid to work on my car, what a fucking joke. So how hard is it to do a strut mount, and btw they are not sure if thats the problem, they checked everything else and said it all appeared to be fine.

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 4:27 pm

Afraid to work on your car?????

Did the skulls scare them?

Jackasses..

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 4:32 pm

No it was a liability issue, which I can understand. That just tells me they have no faith in their workers not to fuck up my car! Looks like I will be taking the wifes car somewhere else. That sucks cause I have been dealing with these guys for over 5yrs.

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 4:32 pm

the strut mount, i believe is the upper most portion of the shock tower assembly. i could be wrong though. if i am correct, then it would basically be removing the the tower to replace the top of it. maybe somebody else could chime in but it seems it would be the part that those three bolts stick through the body and you connected your strut tower brace to...

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 4:36 pm

Ya thats part of it, but I believe I have to get a spring compressor also. I remember when Adam and I did the struts we had to take the springs off to put the mount on.

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 6:28 pm

un FUCKING real is all I can say. So I had a post on the Z about my problem. Someone responded asking if I had BT strut tower covers. He went on to say he also has them and when he put his mopar strut tower brace on he had similar noises. So I'm thinking he is fucking crazy what could that possibly have to do with it, because I had the problem before I put the brace on, but it was only the drivers side making noise. So I said fuck it what do I have to lose, I take off the BT strut covers and go for a ride, no fucking noise at all. I made sure I hit all the shitty roads and drove fast and slow, and I repeat no fucking noise at all!!! So as far as I'm concerned problem solved and I have half my suspension brand new. There was a problem with the drivers side prior to the strut tower brace, so out of the 3 things I replaced that problem is also solved. I'm so fucking relieved, I have been stressing over this since Sunday. Now who can try and figure out why the strut covers cause this to happen?????

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 6:30 pm

Glad you got it fixed!

But that is some weird stuff man.

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 6:45 pm

eviltrycycle wrote:
Glad you got it fixed!

But that is some weird stuff man.

Yes it is, and I would like for someone to try and figure out the explanation for it.

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 6:46 pm

I'm voting a tie rod or two.
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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 7:03 pm

That is weird but im glad you got it fixed. Maybe with the strut bar on there it is hitting the BT covers when the bar flexes?

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 7:10 pm

Iguanaman wrote:
I'm voting a tie rod or two.

Dave,
read the whole thread.

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 7:29 pm

any pictures of how the bt covers attach?

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 7:32 pm

No, but they screw on to the top bolt of the strut. The strut tower brace sits around it.

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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 7:33 pm

glad you got it homie i always thought they were just covers and all show but whatever its fixed
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PostSubject: Re: Knocking noise   21st April 2010, 7:35 pm

I'd make BT aware of this issue.

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