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Old 11-03-2009, 08:12 AM
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ii have a popping that i THINK (from what i can hear) coming from the front end of the car and it pops the same volume every time on every tire rotation. i took my exhaust off from the h-pipe back thinkin that one of the mufflers was knockin against the drive shaft but that didnt help. my front end from the spindles, hub assembly, rotors and calipers are all svo front end and five lug conv. long tube headers and flows. its a 91 with a 331 stroker in it. its also my daily driver so if anyone has any suggestions please lemme know asap if possible. thanks guys!
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Old 11-03-2009, 08:31 AM
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bad wheel bearing
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Old 11-03-2009, 08:37 AM
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Noises can be very difficult to pin point, but what I would do is jack each side of the car up and check each wheel for bad bearings. Grab the wheel and see if you can move it like at the 12 O clock position and 6. Then move to 3 and 9 O clock position. Look while you have it up at the suspension rubber to make sure it is in place and good. The only other thing that might be popping is ball joints. I was not sure if they were replaced as part of the SVO mod's you did or not. Good luck!
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Old 11-03-2009, 12:23 PM
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I was having a knocking noise everytime i hit a bump, it ended up being that one of the swaybar end links was gone and my swaybar was just hanging.
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Old 11-03-2009, 12:46 PM
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i had a knocking one time it was the inner fenderskirts coming off lol. i ended up taking them out after that anyways. at first i thought it was suspension related cus it happened after every bump
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