I've been getting creaking noises from the rear that sound like metal bending under hard cornering. My rear quarter panels are rusting out at the back of the wheel well, the likely cause. Only trouble is, I've driven CRXs with rust in that same area without any noise under cornering. Any insight, possibly a cure besides the expensive bodywork?

 

muks are good huh.

 

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.....?

 

My old crx had the same thing going on after i got suspension.
I think my frame was growing weak.

 

sounds like chassis flex, our cars are like 15-18 years.

 

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Mine's coming up on 19 if you count 1 year back from the model year. What kind of things can be done to prevent it in the rear section of the car?

 

The phrase "chassis flex" turns up surprisingly little in the search.

 

Are you sure its not your tires rubbing your rear fenders? What size tires are you running on the slips? It could make a pretty loud noise when it rubs.

 

195-50-15s, and they did start rubbing after I put in my lowering springs (the DA brakes and arms didn't help either, I think the set adds almost 1/2" to the rear wheelbase). But after I rolled the fenders the rubbing went away. This is something differant.

 

i just put on suspension last month and i have the same thing now in the rear of my '91 rex. before it was silent, now creak creak, pop, creak, all sorts of alwful noises when i hit bumps and go through turns, i'm not very happy, i work in a body shop though and have full access to the shop and welding equipment. its not rust, my car is 97% rust free so i guess i'm just gonna try to add welds to all the major body seems back there and see what happens.

 

That's called stitch welding right? I've wanted to try something along those lines if I can ever find a cheap welder. Is it the sort of thing an amateur welder should even bother trying?

 

it sounds like it could be your springs.. did it make this noise before you dropped it? they probably just need to settle in.. i would check out the rear end (all bushings, connections, struts) before thinking bout chassis flex

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jdeemseerx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">it sounds like it could be your springs.. did it make this noise before you dropped it? they probably just need to settle in.. i would check out the rear end (all bushings, connections, struts) before thinking bout chassis flex</TD></TR></TABLE>

The noises were occuring before I switched springs. All of the bushings were changed around the same time to urethane except for the Trailing Arms, which are from the newer DA arms I installed for the discs. The bushings were in fairly good shape, which is why I didn't change them. I also replaced the struts and switched from 88 LCAs to DA units; over a 2 month period I ended up replacing pretty much every single peice of the rear suspension.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Deo &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The noises were occuring before I switched springs. All of the bushings were changed around the same time to urethane except for the Trailing Arms, which are from the newer DA arms I installed for the discs. The bushings were in fairly good shape, which is why I didn't change them. I also replaced the struts and switched from 88 LCAs to DA units; over a 2 month period I ended up replacing pretty much every single peice of the rear suspension.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Might be time to regrease some of those urethane bushings.