Was driving home from work and heard rattling going on on my front drivers wheel area so I get home park and open the hood and find this on my drivers side strut/shock
not sure what happened but could use some help figure out what i did, Did i forgot to put something in or is something broke?
I changed out my shocks and springs on wensday and did not notice any noises until tonite.
PLEASE HELP! have a heart!

 

any one think it could be the bumpstop. i cut it when i lowered 2 inch's and no its only lowered in an inch?

 

anyone just throw out ideas IM stumped.

 

did you put the stop washer back on http://www.hondaautomotivepart...ORBER number 8 in the pic

 

i thought i did but i was tired when i did it so it could have slipped my mind. I just want as many suggestions because its dark out right now and I cant go lookso tommorow I go look and no what to look for so that could very well be it. thanks
Any one else?

 

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i believe that washer missing is the only thing that can cause that.

 

its definately missing that washer. thers no other reason for it to punch out like that.

its happened to me before when i lifted the top hat to reposition it and the washer came up with it and didnt get back on the shock rod and was trapped inside the dust cover. when i saw it happen, i swore i put the washer on, but figured what happened when i found it inside.

 

word, that sucks alot but its my own mistake thanks for helping out.

 

do you think it would hurt anything to drive it 10 miles all highway to fix it. I think it should be fine.

 

its going to bust your hood.

 

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yea i think it would hurt things. that shock would destroy your hood, plus your that side wont be dampened to well seeing as the shock wont compress.

 

really its weird cause i drove it for to days like this and it didnt start making noises until to day I wonder what made it act normal. Usaully when you lower the car back to the ground the strut will poke out like it is now. But it looked perfectly fine when I lowered back down after installing everything. ******* Weird.

 

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the reason it did that is because it took time for the shock to push the sleeve out of the top-hat.

 

well then im a monkey, eek eek my names bingo give me a bananna!

 

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I hate doing things like that, I thought I forgot something after I did my steering rack install. Was dead tired at the end. Turns out I was in the clear - it was just that BOTH upper ball joints are toast.

 

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I hate doing things like that, I thought I forgot something after I did my steering rack install. Was dead tired at the end. Turns out I was in the clear - it was just that BOTH upper ball joints are toast.</TD></TR></TABLE>

what the hell did you forget to put in?

 

i got everything fixed today, turns out I did have a washer there it just wasnt the right one not sure where it came from but it worked it self down the shaft like three inches. Luckily I had the right one in my tool box so alot of work cause im ******* tarded. thanks for everyones insight. much love.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by kcem1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i got everything fixed today, turns out I did have a washer there it just wasnt the right one not sure where it came from but it worked it self down the shaft like three inches. Luckily I had the right one in my tool box so alot of work cause im ******* tarded. thanks for everyones insight. much love.</TD></TR></TABLE>