Clunk in the rear going over bumps

[Snakebyte94]

I don't know what's going on with my car. I live in N.Y. and you could only gess what the roads are like. I have Steeda LCA, Ultra lite springs, Panhard bar & brace. And Koni shocks. I drive over this road every day for the last 2 years. The last three days when I go over this bump in the road I here a clunk in the rear. Sounds like something is hitting the underbody. I can't figure this out. Maybe something wrong with my control arms.
Help please.

 

[fullsayl]

If you have the Steeda Adjustable (i.e. Hemi-Joint) LCA's then it may be those, though it is a little odd that they only clunk after 2 years. Do you have relocation brackets as well? I assume that you have checked the bolts/etc. and made sure that everything is still torqued to spec and all of that applicable jam nuts are still tight.

Matty

 

[bigwilly43729]

Check your suspension bolts. I just fixed a similar problem yesterday where the forward LCA bolt had gotten loose and caused a noise like the one you are describing. I put a new bolt in there and used some RED loc-tite. Bet that bitch won't be doing that again.

But yeah, check your bolts. They can come loose.

 

[Snakebyte94]

If you have the Steeda Adjustable (i.e. Hemi-Joint) LCA's then it may be those, though it is a little odd that they only clunk after 2 years. Do you have relocation brackets as well? I assume that you have checked the bolts/etc. and made sure that everything is still torqued to spec and all of that applicable jam nuts are still tight.

Matty

No I have the billet arms w/Poly bushings. No relocation brackets.
Yea I'm going to take everything out and check it.

Check your suspension bolts. I just fixed a similar problem yesterday where the forward LCA bolt had gotten loose and caused a noise like the one you are describing. I put a new bolt in there and used some RED loc-tite. Bet that bitch won't be doing that again.

But yeah, check your bolts. They can come loose.

OK. I was just about to order the Fays2 watts link. I'm going to wait right now for that.
Thanks gentlemen,
Raymond

 

[bigray327]

If that doesn't work, check the tops of your Konis. If that nut comes loose, it can cause clunking.

 

[*JZ*]

Make sure the bushings haven't gone bad.

 

[Rangersfan]

Check bolts, and one other thing: exhaust hitting against the panhard bar or something else. I had a loose hanger that was letting the left pipe hit and I'd hear it on bumps all the time.

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[Snakebyte94]

Thank everyone for your suggestions. I finally got a nice day to work on my car today after soooo much rain. When my daughter come to me this morning and said that her cars engine is making noise. So I had to check that out. Turn out that she had only 2 Quarts of oil in the car. She has a VW Bettle. I tied to talk her at of buy this car. My car is going into the body shop Monday 5/18 to have a dent fixed that someone was kind enough to do for me in a parking lot. Maybe I'll get to it next weekend.
Thanks guys and or girls.
Raymond

 

[Charlie Sheen]

...exhaust hitting against the panhard bar or something else...

What he said.

 

[StangPower05]

exhaust hitting against the panhard bar or something else

x100. I can guarantee its this. Mine has been doing it since i changed the stock exhaust out and it annoys the hell out of me, but i just live with it!

 

[Mylilpony]

my front suspension is starting to make noise (again). I am just going to leave it alone, and hope for the best lol. If shit doesnt fall apart or fall off, than I will just put the radio louder. I'm done fixing shit that isnt broken.....

I live in queens btw. Best of luck to you lol.

 

[FnSweet06]

x100. I can guarantee its this. Mine has been doing it since i changed the stock exhaust out and it annoys the hell out of me, but i just live with it!

Mine was doing the same. put it on the lift and heated up the pipes and made a little adjusments bending the pipe and now it dont do it as offten.

 

[Kaldar142]

x100. I can guarantee its this. Mine has been doing it since i changed the stock exhaust out and it annoys the hell out of me, but i just live with it!

mine too, i got used to it lol

i try to avoid bumps as much as possible (been driving the same route for a year now lol) or slow down right before them... my axle is hitting the over axle pipes, slightly taps them when i go over a bump at anything over 20mph

 

[StangPower05]

mine too, i got used to it lol

i try to avoid bumps as much as possible (been driving the same route for a year now lol) or slow down right before them... my axle is hitting the over axle pipes, slightly taps them when i go over a bump at anything over 20mph

same exact thing i get, the axle hitting the over axle!

 

[Kaldar142]

atleast i'm not alone, lol

 

[Snakebyte94]

I finaly got under the car today. I have the GTA exhaust and the two rear hangers on each muffler are broken off. Good thing I already have theGT500 KR mufflers coming.

 

[alloy6ix]

I just found out that like two hours ago. I've had the problem for two weeks and had been meaning to post it up, but thanks. Lol, that was the problem.

 

[GRAYPNY]

I finaly got under the car today. I have the GTA exhaust and the two rear hangers on each muffler are broken off. Good thing I already have theGT500 KR mufflers coming.

Glad you found the problem. You're gotta love the change from the GTA's to KR's!