Not a tool for suspension........
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Not a tool for suspension........
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Well for anyone interested, I isolated the location of my popping noise. I mounted my little SD video camera on different parts of my car and drove it over bumps where I always get the clunking sound.
I first mounted it on my lower control arm pointed at the wheel. Drove over the bumps, heard the noise while driving, but it wasn't audible on the video. So I ruled out some thing in the suspension close to the wheel.
Next I mounted it under the hood right below the wipers, pointed toward the top hat of the offending side. This time the sound was audible on the video, but not really loud. I knew I was close then.
Finally I moved the camera right next to the top hat on top of the strut. Bingo, you can hear the sound loud an clear. My problem is obviously at the top of the strut. I going to have it pulled and replace everything in that area.
Here's the video. You are looking at the bolt that comes up through the center of the top hat.
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so about $200.00 beans later my car is still apart, but its going back together today after work. new knuckle, new ball joint, new brake heat shild and hardware, new tie rod end, new axle, and a new strut mount, Im not a betting man, but Id put money on it that my clunk noise will be no more.
wow thats sweet!!...good thinking!! glad you found that was your issue
AWESOME MAN!!! looks like you are just like me, while you were in there you replaced EVERYTHING, i do approve sir...
you really got me thinking that the source of my issues really could have been cuz of that balljoint moving and hitting my axle and such...im going to have to see if the balljoint grease "nipple" is damaged or loose or bent, that would of happened if my lower balljoint was moving up and down, cuz if it was, the nipple would have hit the axle between the abs notches and hte axle boot...we shall see i guess...
but as of right now my popping noise has not come back...
my car is all back together and its still making noises. . . this time its coming from the steering rack area and only during turning. . . im getting super upset, and extremely down because of all of this bull shit.
I pulled both of the front struts out of my car last night to change the springs. I found one of the tie rods had some play in it and I thought I may killed the "cup and ball" joint between the tierod and the rack. It turned out to be just loose...after I pulled the boot and tighened it I repacked the rack while I was at it.....feels better now.
Anyone find out what is causing this clunk? My car is doing it again.. It did it a little while back and the strut hat nut was loose. I tightened it and the noise went away. That's the second time in a few years this has happened.
I'm wondering if the torque applied to the strut hat nut needs to be just right or else the clunking will rear it's head. I'm going to re-torque them and see what happens.
have you done the top hat bushing yet? have you checked it? yours might be getting more and more compressed because its just plastic if i remember correctly, so you could just be taking up the tolerance by tightening it down...maybe look into that...im going to be doing my top hat bushings this week when i do my new springs...ill post up when i do
I did it two days ago. The clunk is more muted now and seems less frequent but it's still there sometimes. I removed my front sway bar and checked everything out because the clunk started after I changed the bushings. I put it all back together and I'll see how is feels/sounds tomorrow.
Stay tuned!
BTW: I noticed my spindle nut on both wheels is flush with the end of the bolt, which I believe means they are definitely not tight enough. The manual says the spindle nut should be torqued to 134ft/lbs. They were only removed since my k24 was put in so it's been like that for 1.5 years.. yikes. I routinely hear a sorta gear noise from the front much like the sound the tranny makes when backing up. I wonder if this is the cause...
Well, I re-adjusted the front sway bushings and the clunking is pretty much gone... It sure sounded like something struts would do but I guess it was the sway bar, which makes sense since it started when I originally changed the bushings.
So I ordered KYB SM5403 for the front. Strut Mount Kit, with the bearing. The bearing is plastic, thin, and flimsy. I called KYB, and they said the correct part should be SM5402... Every website has our car listed as SM5403. Can anyone chime in on this?