New to honda/acura's... rear bushing question
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New to honda/acura's... rear bushing question
I played around with the search function a little but didn't find anything that fully answered my question... if you find a thread that does and I didn't feel free to link me 
Anyways, definitely not new to the car scene but am new to hondas/acuras. I picked up a 95' Integra LS as a daily while looking for a new project. It has 140,000 miles and overall is in great shape especially for the price (sub $2,000)
It does need some TLC in the suspension department though. It is currently on Neuspeed Race springs and blown tokico illuminas. God knows how long these things have been on there but the springs are more rust than yellow and the tokicos are covered in shock oil. Needless to say the ride is pretty bouncy. Ordered a set of Progress CS-II coilovers today which will take care of that.
The rear end of the car sounds really jiggly and somewhat loose, almost like bad strut mounts in previous cars so a friend and I tossed it up on some stands last night to check everything over. When driving, medium to big bumps emit a large BANG especially from the right rear shock. While checking everything over we didn't find anything alarmingly wrong besides the obviously blown shocks. All the bushings look a little dry but nothing is crumbling or ripped in half yet. If anything the trailing arm bushings look like they'd be the first to go. Nothing made an audible thunk when applying force with a pry bar yet when you lower the car on the ground and rock it back and forth you can hear an audible thunk from the right rear. It sounds like its coming from the shock mount area.
Is it possible the blown shocks are causing most of the noise?
Which bushings are known to go in these cars. If something does need to be replaced I'll just go ahead and replace them all.
Anyways, definitely not new to the car scene but am new to hondas/acuras. I picked up a 95' Integra LS as a daily while looking for a new project. It has 140,000 miles and overall is in great shape especially for the price (sub $2,000)
It does need some TLC in the suspension department though. It is currently on Neuspeed Race springs and blown tokico illuminas. God knows how long these things have been on there but the springs are more rust than yellow and the tokicos are covered in shock oil. Needless to say the ride is pretty bouncy. Ordered a set of Progress CS-II coilovers today which will take care of that.
The rear end of the car sounds really jiggly and somewhat loose, almost like bad strut mounts in previous cars so a friend and I tossed it up on some stands last night to check everything over. When driving, medium to big bumps emit a large BANG especially from the right rear shock. While checking everything over we didn't find anything alarmingly wrong besides the obviously blown shocks. All the bushings look a little dry but nothing is crumbling or ripped in half yet. If anything the trailing arm bushings look like they'd be the first to go. Nothing made an audible thunk when applying force with a pry bar yet when you lower the car on the ground and rock it back and forth you can hear an audible thunk from the right rear. It sounds like its coming from the shock mount area.
Is it possible the blown shocks are causing most of the noise?
Which bushings are known to go in these cars. If something does need to be replaced I'll just go ahead and replace them all.
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