I've been battling this front clunk mystery for the last months, ferrying my rig to my TRD mechanic across town. My problem was a mystery clunking felt under my feet in the drivers side. it occurs typically when unwieghting a wheel i.e. coming off something, speedbump (going slow), reversing out of a driveway and turning, transitioning from a flat piece of road into a left hand turn onto a slightly less elevated street.
I searched all over on fixes on the forum - most resulted in sway bar mounts. i have changed sway bar bushing and links/hardware, uca's and ball joints. The UCA's and sway bar hardware needed to be done anyway and didn't fix the problem. The clunking is still there. We put the cruiser up on the rack and went through part by part.. all good.. it wasn't until we were pulling up and down on teh bullbar to see if we could hear movement did the clunking appear. We are hazarding a strong guess that the suspension is topping out and limiting out on the shock itself. It would take too many top outs to ruin the rubber bushing inside.
on to the proposed fix.. this is experimental on our side for the moment - please comment, give advice if know something that would help..
option 1 - as a trial, we searched for slightly longer shocks to put in there to see if the extra shock extension will allow the suspension to stop (extend) on teh lca rather than the shock itself. We are still looking for something local and haven't sourced anything yet.
option 2 - using the same shocks, we're going to add a spacer under the upper shock mount to bring it down a bit further (i.e. compress and allow more droop). as a note, the truck always has been setup according to the guidance on Slee's website and OME - we have 70 mm of droop.
the option 2 is to test if this solves the issue, if so, option 1 may be considered until i can find an alternate and hopefull better solution. this cruiser is for wheeling; our environment tends to be lots of low range, slow crawling, lots of rocks, water and mud. oh yes, did i mention mosquitoes?
the cruiser is being put together now to see how it works, but has anyone experienced this or tried to resolve this? I would expect this to be a much wider voiced concern considering the amount of lifts out there - Any insight or recommendations are welcomed.
I searched all over on fixes on the forum - most resulted in sway bar mounts. i have changed sway bar bushing and links/hardware, uca's and ball joints. The UCA's and sway bar hardware needed to be done anyway and didn't fix the problem. The clunking is still there. We put the cruiser up on the rack and went through part by part.. all good.. it wasn't until we were pulling up and down on teh bullbar to see if we could hear movement did the clunking appear. We are hazarding a strong guess that the suspension is topping out and limiting out on the shock itself. It would take too many top outs to ruin the rubber bushing inside.
on to the proposed fix.. this is experimental on our side for the moment - please comment, give advice if know something that would help..
option 1 - as a trial, we searched for slightly longer shocks to put in there to see if the extra shock extension will allow the suspension to stop (extend) on teh lca rather than the shock itself. We are still looking for something local and haven't sourced anything yet.
option 2 - using the same shocks, we're going to add a spacer under the upper shock mount to bring it down a bit further (i.e. compress and allow more droop). as a note, the truck always has been setup according to the guidance on Slee's website and OME - we have 70 mm of droop.
the option 2 is to test if this solves the issue, if so, option 1 may be considered until i can find an alternate and hopefull better solution. this cruiser is for wheeling; our environment tends to be lots of low range, slow crawling, lots of rocks, water and mud. oh yes, did i mention mosquitoes?
the cruiser is being put together now to see how it works, but has anyone experienced this or tried to resolve this? I would expect this to be a much wider voiced concern considering the amount of lifts out there - Any insight or recommendations are welcomed.
