I changed out all the ball joints and outer tie rods about 5 months ago and now it's clunking again. It clunks like crazy over every little bump.

I jacked the car up yesterday and looked at all the ball joints and even shook the wheel to see if there's any play and everything seems tight like your mom's vagina...

What the hell else can it be? ***** driving me nuts.. I hate messing with the suspension cuz it's a pain in the ***. What else besides ball joints and tie rods causes front suspension clunk? Suggestions please.. thanks in advance!

 

it might be the axles...

 

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Nope axles are all good to go, no rips or anything...

 

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Are you lowered and running a front camber kit? The UCA hitting the shock tower produces a "metal on metal" clunk sound. It took me weeks to figure out that was the cause of my front suspension noise, and even then, only the fresh dents in my shocks towers explained it.

 

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Are you lowered and running a front camber kit? The UCA hitting the shock tower produces a "metal on metal" clunk sound. It took me weeks to figure out that was the cause of my front suspension noise, and even then, only the fresh dents in my shocks towers explained it.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Hey.. that's a very good guess as well, never have thought of that.

Yes I am running the Rhino UCA camber kits, I had to pound the underside fender a lil bit to make them fit and since I'm lowered +2.5", there maybe is a chance that they are hitting! Thanks a bunch man! I'll try to figure if the clunking is really coming from them hitting... What's the best way to test it? I don't really actually see any dents looking from the engine bay.

 

is your suspesion bottoming out
did u check radius rods like i posted before

 

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Hey.. that's a very good guess as well, never have thought of that.

Yes I am running the Rhino UCA camber kits, I had to pound the underside fender a lil bit to make them fit and since I'm lowered +2.5", there maybe is a chance that they are hitting! Thanks a bunch man! I'll try to figure if the clunking is really coming from them hitting... What's the best way to test it? I don't really actually see any dents looking from the engine bay.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I suppose putting something deformable on the top of the UCA might enable you to see if it is hitting. Glue a piece of packing styrofoam to it, and see if it gets damaged after driving around maybe? No clue if that will work, I'm just throwing out ideas here. There has to be something better than that though...

Otherwise, just remove the wheel, and see if the normal grime has been scratched, dented, etc. near where the UCA would hit.

I measured the height of my camber adjusting UCAs before installing, and even the thin SPC UCAs I have are a good 1/2" thicker (from balljoint end to top of the adjusting nut) than stock, and these are thinner than the commonly used Skunk2 UCAs. Of course, the UCA moves less than the wheel during bump, so 1/2" of UCA travel is more than 1/2" of wheel travel, so I probably have around 1" less suspension bump travel than stock (they're wider than stock as well, so they can't tuck up into the shock tower as far either)...