$50 Bounty: Front end clanking post lift
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Your caster bolts may have loosened up a bit. I had similar noises after I completed my lift. I tightened mine up as much as I could and the noise went away.
Dan, I'll throw in some money for a 3/4" breaker bar so we can go to town on those bolts.
richardlillard1
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mudgudgeon
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mudgudgeon
Resident galah
Are they different to other caster plates?
Any caster plate I've had anything to do with still relies on bolts passing through the standard bolt holes on the diff housing for alignment. Elongated holes could still be a problem.
Welding caster plates in might be a half decent fix though?
MoJ
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Just a shot in the dark from an issue I had a decade ago but it's easy won't cost you anything...carefully check the sway bar bracket weld where it attaches to the top of the axle housing. Mine looked fine when at rest as the broken weld pieces would perfectly nest together. Whenever the suspension was unevenly loaded the two pieces would separate and eventually clang back together. I must of looked at it a dozen times before spotting the fine crack in the weld.
Hornd
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I'm not sure you are fat?! I can't see you from here
Clearly he's in Camo
I'm sure you did, but I can't remember. I can't even remember my kid's names or what I'd had for breakfast, there's no way I can keep track here.
If it ends up being the swaybars how are we going to split the reward?
Shot in the dark but is the front axle centered after the lift. If you still have the stock panhard the axle could be more to one side. If so the front bump stop inside the front coil spring could be hitting it. The bump stops have a metal washer in them that sticks out and can pluck the spring like a guitar pick. Some people just grid it down but I would buy a adjustable front panhard bar. Hope that helps.
Same clunk I have. Its not my sway bar because it happens to me when its fully disconnected. I figure its the spring hitting the bumpstop or slightly twisting in the mounts. I will be excited to hear what you find, its disconcerting.
LS1FJ40
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I'm baffled. What I'm baffled by is that you all have rigs that are quiet enough to hear stuff like this. Between the failing door seals, failing moon roof seal, INTI rack, lights, knobby tires, and ticking of my motor I can't even hear myself think let alone a notice from underneath my truck.
Selective hearing.
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Definitely not the swayer unfortunately. Been running around without it all week. Clank still present
I'm sure you did, but I can't remember. I can't even remember my kid's names or what I'd had for breakfast, there's no way I can keep track here.
If it ends up being the swaybars how are we going to split the reward?
richardlillard1
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I'm sure you did, but I can't remember. I can't even remember my kid's names or what I'd had for breakfast, there's no way I can keep track here.
If it ends up being the swaybars how are we going to split the reward?
We'll have to meet between Tucson and Phoenix for libations or something, I guess.
Did you try the rear swaybar? When mine would make the exact same noise it frequently sounded like the front.
Track down my clank to a loosened front control arm bolt while on 4XOverland run in Utah. Stop and tighten the bolt and keep on traveling, couple days later i discovered the damage that loose bolt caused.
Control arm caster bushings had shifted putting stress on axle bracket.
Replaced with slee caster plates.
Control arm caster bushings had shifted putting stress on axle bracket.
Replaced with slee caster plates.
