Something is rattling from my back end suspension area.. not sure what it is.. its not coming from the shock, spring, brake caliper.. Just wondering if anyone has had the same problem.. it only makes noise when going over bumps.

 

any suggestions??? please.. its so annoying..

 

It could be the rear heat shield.

 

Er, um.....are you sure it's not the hatch?

 

ya definitely not the hatch..i fixed that.. heat sheild no.. it sounds like its coming from the rear drivers side..something to do with suspension.... an arm or something loose or bushing gone.... i dont know..

 

Your rear hatch used to rattle? Mine does currently, how did you go about fixing this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

 

do you have colilovers? if so it could be them...especailly if your car us dumped and the piece that spins is loose, it will "rattle" like you said..but if not good luck finding out...

check your res. i had a rattle once from the rear and ended up replacing my res, the baffle took a **** on me and was rattling pretty bad, but your rattle doesnt seem that severe.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by UnionCity LS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">do you have colilovers? if so it could be them...especailly if your car us dumped and the piece that spins is loose, it will "rattle" like you said..but if not good luck finding out...

check your res. i had a rattle once from the rear and ended up replacing my res, the baffle took a **** on me and was rattling pretty bad, but your rattle doesnt seem that severe.</TD></TR></TABLE>

What is "res?"

 

that happened to me, its your heatshield. Take that **** out. I took mine out. ****

 

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my guess is resonator?

 

ATXS2K:
if its that metal on metal soundin rattle/clank coming from the truck latch put a LITTLE bit of electrical tape around it. dont get tape happy or else you wont be able to open and close it anymore. woops.


try to keep wrinkles out.

hope that helped.

 

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my guess is resonator? </TD></TR></TABLE>

for sure.

 

ya to fix the hatch rattle, use electric tape around the latch hook on the hatch..

and thanks for the help. ill look at all those possible problems.. oh ya.. its not the coilovers.. i had them and thought that was the problem so i bought eibach prokit(i was going to anyway) and still didnt solve the problem.

 

its the bushings fo sho

 

My rear rattles too. Can't figure out what it is. All bolts are tight, but the suspsension is really stiff, so it might just be that.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by gearheadgirlie &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ATXS2K:
if its that metal on metal soundin rattle/clank coming from the truck latch put a LITTLE bit of electrical tape around it. dont get tape happy or else you wont be able to open and close it anymore. woops.


try to keep wrinkles out.

hope that helped.
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Thanks. I will try this out.

 

on the hatch hook there are shims under it if you wan it fixed unscrew and take it out or electrical tape works too

 

If it doesn't make noise when you are cornering but does when you are going straight then it is probably the endlinks.

I pulled the spare and the cardboard piece out of the back, pulled back the carpet back and sat back there with my ear down on the floor while my brother drove around. I marked where the noise was coming from with a pencil and used that as a reference to find what suspension piece on the other side was closest.

 

My 97 gsr had the same problem but only after i installd an exhaust. I found out that one of the hangers slipped off and it was alowing (sp?) the exhaust to hit/rattle against some of the chassis. scared the hell out of me, i thought i broke something. Just something to check out. good luck