clunking after strut install
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clunking after strut install
i put my konis on last night (stock 05 springs for now) in the front of the car and took 'er for a ride. since i was pounding the engine in couldnt hear any suspension noise, until today at lunch when i left work to grab some subway and had the radio off. everytime i go over the smallest bump i hear clunking from both struts, a bit more from the passenger one... what gives??? is it coz i have the struts on hardest and the springs are soft or what?
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i'm pretty sure they are as firm as they can be, since i wanted to start from max so both sides are even and then adjust from there equal amounts... who knows maybe i put them on full soft but i really doubt it. it's really not that loud at all but you can hear it....kinda like those mild headaches...your head pounds a bit, not enough fot you to be in agony, but enough to piss you off. almost sounds like something is rubbing against something elseLouie wrote:yea you probably need to tighthen them all the way.
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no, im not reffering to the koni's, or how firm or soft they are, that shouldn't make any more noise than the other. i mean the top nut to the top hat.
you need a tool like that
to hold the shaft while you tighthen the top nut.
the only noise i know associated with firmness is like on the ACR's, if they're on firm and you hit a bump you hear a hiss, that hiss is much more drowned out and quiet when you're on soft.
you need a tool like that
to hold the shaft while you tighthen the top nut.
the only noise i know associated with firmness is like on the ACR's, if they're on firm and you hit a bump you hear a hiss, that hiss is much more drowned out and quiet when you're on soft.
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I do not know much about struts but I impacted these damn things untill they were tight as hell. So how could they still be loose? And that tool looks like a big compication of shit that you dont need. That is just my opinion though, I have no clue.
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Louie wrote:no, im not reffering to the koni's, or how firm or soft they are, that shouldn't make any more noise than the other. i mean the top nut to the top hat.
you need a tool like that
to hold the shaft while you tighthen the top nut.
the only noise i know associated with firmness is like on the ACR's, if they're on firm and you hit a bump you hear a hiss, that hiss is much more drowned out and quiet when you're on soft.
you're right the top nuts got loose...actually just the driver one, i noticed it as soon as i tried to adjust the firmness. hand tightened them down till i got home and the noise was gone. torqued them down, installed the rears and went right out and started scarying myself through the corners. up to now i thought my fading wide tires were the tits, but now they are completely out classed. went to an empty wallmart parking lot where i went a while back and gave the car a decent trashing, but this time i spent the whole time skidding and sliding the car turns like a mofo on steroids in short, and i really really need some sway bars because if you flick the car from side to side, the turn in is so sharp that it really throws the weight of the car around and makes the back slide out very easy...i still think that properly sized sway bars (no huge rear) are the best suspension mod if you are gonna pick one and only one, but i'm still very happy with the konis. thanks for the help guys, i really apreciate the quick responses
i just clamped them with a vice grip as suggested by someone else and that ended up working beautifully, once i got passed the first strut. all in all the whole job isn't THAT hard, but you just need some pointers or learn some tricks once, so you know to do it properly and fast all the time... for example it took me for freakin ever to allign the first rear strut and i ended up compressing it and decompressing it like 5-6 times each till through my desperation i suddenly realized that you're supposed to line up the arrow to the little hole on the strut. i saw the arrow right away, but since you have that rubber ring at the bottom i had no clue that hole was even there. it's these dumb little things that take you the most time that they never mention in the install how tosLouie wrote:see both your struts sound like they're loose.
you HAVE to use something like i put in the picture. mopar actually has a part number for it or something on it. jason knows about it.
when i first installed my coilovers i impacted them too. my dad's a mechanic so i took the biggest baddest impact gun, turned it all the way up, and torqued away. but they still came loose. and clunked pretty bad. with 336/224 spring rates + the clunk, it gets very annoying. so now i fixed the clunk and the car is great.