Re: 300M still clunks

i do know what i talking about and have done it a buch of times thats how i
know it od hit *** and the bar flopping around can actually catch on the
brake caliper and not allow the car to turn depending on if both sides are
loose or not
YOU SIR ARE THE ONE THAT NEEDS A CLUE

Bill Putney wrote:

You don't know what your talking about - you abviously haven't tried it
(and if you were uncertain about it, it was probably a good idea not
to). Absolutely nothing hits anything. It's a completely valid test
for an LH car.

Bill Putney
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philthy wrote:

that particular app. would actually cause the sway bar to klunk more
hitting other stuff while it was disconnected
u did hit the nail on the head was the owner willing to pay for the time
spent on the vehicle???

Bill Putney wrote:


RCSnyder wrote:

Art,

I'm not at all surprised. The bushings cannot, I repeat, cannot be
diagnosed by looking at them on a rack.

However, as I pointed out earlier, you can rule sway bar bushings and
end links in or out as the cause with 100% certainty by simply removing
one end link from the vehicle (i.e., totally unloading the sway bar) and
seeing if the noise stays or goes away when you drive it.

If the noise does not occur with the one end link removed, then that
proves that one or more bushings and or end links are bad. If the noise
still happens with the end link removed, then the noise is elsewhere.

And yes - to pay a shop to do that experiment is just going to add to
the total cost of getting to a solution - unless it proves that the
bushings/end links are the problem, and it might be a good idea at that
point to have them just replace them (except, again, paying a shop to do
it with their greatly inflated parts costs is liable to cost an
additional couple of hundred dollars instead of the well-under-$100 and
1 or 2 hours that it would cost to DIY).

If it solves the problem, then it will have been worth it. If it
doesn't, you still have the problem, but you at least have ruled those
parts out.

Bill Putney
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