It started off as rear disc brake swap. My car, 2000 DX hatchback, donor car, 2000 SiR. Everything was swapped over, the compensator arm, trailing arm (with ES trailing arm bushing replaced), brake line and whanot. Except the rear upper control arm, since mine look to be in better condition.

So the swap was done and after 2 weeks, rear clicking sound kicked in. Then I looked on H-T for possible causes of problem and did some exercise of pulling the wheel, and it turned out the bearing was bad. My rear wheel could be pulled outwards if I pulled hard enough. About 1/4" of play. So tonight, the bearing was replaced (btw, for 99-00 Si/SiR, rear hub/bearing assy. w/o ABS uses 42200-ST7-C51. I hope I got the part number correct).

After the installation, on my way home, I heard the same annoying sound. It is a sound of some metal pounding against another metal part, like a big "CLUNK" sound. I will try to describ it the best I could.

I was making a right turn into a gas station. So the car entred the gas station ramp from the street. This turning position caused the car to shift its body to the rear left, since the car was making a up-ramp right turn. So that made the rear right wheel to sort of "drop" because the car was tilting left. That's when the noise was made.

I think the trailing arm should be straight because alignment was done after 4 wheel disc brake swap. Bushing was new. The bearing went and that is new now. I checked rear sway bar and tighted everything so no loose nuts down there.

Could it be suspension?

Thanks

 

Guess what I found... the rear upper arm's 2 bolts are about 1/4 inches out of the chassis. That's where the god damn noises came from.

sigh....

 

Hehehe...I was about to say check your struts. They do the same thing when they're bad.

 

I did check the shock towers, they are pretty tight. I hope this hasn't damaged the upper arm or the bushing in any way, or even bent the horizontal plate.