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Old Mar 28, 2013 | 06:11 PM
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Default weird clunking feeling going over bumps

my sc has prothane lower bushings and whiteline steering rack bushings. i noticed when i go over bumps the car clunks pretty hard. could it be the upper control arms? the car sits on eibachs with blisteins shocks.

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Old Mar 28, 2013 | 06:20 PM
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Can you tell where can you hear it? Front or rear? Check end links, ball joints, bolts that hold the crossmember... There's a detailed thread somewhere, I can't search right now, but you need to retorque the bolts to spec.
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Old Mar 28, 2013 | 07:06 PM
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Could be something awfully loose.
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Old Mar 28, 2013 | 08:01 PM
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Check the center bolt on the steering rack. I had this issue when riding super low with a eibach kyb setup. All of that front camber was causing that center bolt on the steering rack to loosen over time. I hope this helps.
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Originally Posted by inkredible
Check the center bolt on the steering rack. I had this issue when riding super low with a eibach kyb setup. All of that front camber was causing that center bolt on the steering rack to loosen over time. I hope this helps.
definitely coming from the front. i can almost feel it in the floor board. i tighten up the subframe from that post i read but that didn't seem to fix it. i guess i can put it up on a lift and just to town torquing everything.

balljoints don't really back out since they have the cotter pin... guessing it could be bad ball joints. sway bar end links are new. going to torque him while i'm down there.
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Old Mar 31, 2013 | 12:48 PM
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Mine does the same thing. I just have a bad lca though
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Old Apr 1, 2013 | 03:00 PM
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Does it sound anything like this? My car has made a strange noise after doing my LCA's also

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