Front suspension clunk (2 Viewers)

[SouthTxGX]

I’ve been trying to determine where I’m getting a “clunk” from on my 460. Yeah, another one of those threads. I’ve noticed it over small bumps at low speeds such as backing out of my driveway or when slowly creeping through a bumpy parking lot. I also get it when parked and I barely wiggle the steering wheel back and forth. I haven’t had a chance to get it on a lift or really crawl under it. Dobinsons lift with total chaos UCAs was installed a couple months back.

 

[r2m]

With all due respect, before you're hit with a deluge of opinions from arm chair mechanics, take it into a trusted shop and have them look at it.
Otherwise you'll probably get so many thoughts of what's wrong, you'll wind up worrying yourself sick, casue you sell it under the impression it'll be tens of thousands of dollars of repair and end up purchasing a BMW/Land Rover/Jeep or something less than a Lexus/Toyota!
Probably the best advice is just take it back to your Dobinsons installer and have the take a look.

 

[SouthTxGX]

I did talk to the shop and they offered to look it over, but with the holidays coming up and my work schedule it may be a bit before I can take it in.

 

[r2m]

Sucks that you will probably be stuck with that for the next several weeks.
Hope it's not TOO annoying.

 

[Donny Voodoo]

A few easy and free suggestions in the meantime: check wheel lugs for proper tq (83lbft), check that the strut top nuts, lower strut bolts going into the LCA, and UCA bolts/nuts are nice and tight.

 

[VirginiaCruiser]

Just look over all the suspension bolts you can get to, put a wrench on them and try to tighten.

Schedule an appointment with the folks that did your lift

 

[mattds]

I went through the same thing for MOnTHS! Front clunk. I changed everything up front - I would disconnect things and drive around to see if the clunk was still there... I removed the sway bar, drive shafts, skid plates...Turns out ny clunk was the rear sway bar bushings on the bar...

 

[Tex68w]

I had a clunk on the drivers side a month after installing the lift and it turned out to be one of the LCA bolts. It was more than hand tight but far from torque spec, I tightened it to spec and it went away. Hopefully it's something that simple for you as well.

 

[SouthTxGX]

Never mind

 

[VirginiaCruiser]

Never mind

What did you find

 

[SouthTxGX]

Messed with it today and found that when I wiggle the steering wheel you can feel the “clunk” in the UCAs. Passenger side is worse than the driver, but it’s not real bad in either one. It’s probably normal and I’m just super OCD about it. Either way, when I get off work Thursday morning I’m driving straight to Houston to get it looked at. As long as it’s not anything expensive to fix I’ll have them get the sliders ready for install next month.

 

[Tex68w]

Do you have aftermarket adjustable UCA's or are these the stock ones? Check the torque setting for the bolts, my noise came from the LCA and while it was more than hand tight it was still only halfway to the torque setting and that's enough for there to be movement under that kind of pressure.

 

[SouthTxGX]

Total chaos UCAs. I’ll probably bust out a torque wrench if I get a chance this week. Might just take the wife’s new Corolla to work all this week. That 38mpg would be nice compared to my current 13-14mpg.