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I got a question about my other car issue...Ford Focus with a rattling in the drivers side suspension...Struts and sway bar links are 1.5 years old and i just put new lower control arms in a couple months ago...after the new arms got an alignment....switched the front with the rear tire since it...

I rotated the Mark 180° and put it back in the car and now it is centered. Thanks for your help.

Since I was trying to rotate them out, but could not I decided to take the shock out and found what I’m guessing. It’s supposed to be the Mark. See picture this Mark is facing the back of the shirt facing towards the engine.

Loosened the top nuts and pulled it down to look at top of mount. I do not see any arrows or cut outs for alignment. Here is a pic of the strut numbers but can’t find anything on line which one it is

Does anyone have a picture of the notch for my reference?

I took pictures of each side, but not sure how to load the picture up into the posting. I also checked all the bolts and I found one on the driver side that was for the sway bar link that was a little bit loose. Also noticed that the sway bar bushings have this opening slip, facing up on one and...

I’ll check all the nuts and bolts. But I’m sure I pulled on everything already looking for looseness. Is it normal that the strut is not centered in the hole. Wondering if I should loosen up the 4 mounting nuts and see if I can center them. Going to get alignment once I’m sure everything is good.

I just replace the lower control arms in a 2007 that I recently bought. The car has newer struts, shocks, sway bar links, and tie rods. After taking it for a test ride tonight, I am still hearing clunking from something on the passenger side. Thinking maybe the strut mount. Then I noticed...