Something Broke at the Track
05-21-2006, 06:12 PM
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RE: Something Broke at the Track
Try this - Put your parking brake on, put it in nuetral, and with the car off, push back and forth on the body from the back and listen for the clunk. I did that on the lift and that is how I found my problem.
05-21-2006, 09:09 PM
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RE: Something Broke at the Track
^^^^ Yeah, my guess is the differential also. One other thing to check is the Upper control arm. One time mine rattled out one of the main bolts and it was loose. I only heard the clunk if I left hard and it was just the arm banging down. If you checked it and it's solid, then my next guess would be the differential.
05-21-2006, 09:37 PM
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RE: Something Broke at the Track
Im hoping for the upper control arm, but to be honest, Im kinda thinking it is going to be the differential. If it is, is there a better one available? When something breaks, I always want to upgrade, so as not to have the weak link anymore.
05-21-2006, 09:50 PM
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RE: Something Broke at the Track
ORIGINAL: chevykiller
^^^^ Yeah, my guess is the differential also. One other thing to check is the Upper control arm. One time mine rattled out one of the main bolts and it was loose. I only heard the clunk if I left hard and it was just the arm banging down. If you checked it and it's solid, then my next guess would be the differential.
^^^^ Yeah, my guess is the differential also. One other thing to check is the Upper control arm. One time mine rattled out one of the main bolts and it was loose. I only heard the clunk if I left hard and it was just the arm banging down. If you checked it and it's solid, then my next guess would be the differential.
If I broke something in the differential, could that still explain driving home almost 100 miles without noticing anything different under ordinary highway driving?
05-22-2006, 08:48 PM
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RE: Something Broke at the Track
Turns out you were right. It was the adjustable third link. Blew the bushings out, though. I called steeda, and they want me to talk to the engineers tomorrow. Great guys. They want to find out how and why it happened, so it wont happen again. Anyhoo, that is a releif.
05-22-2006, 09:05 PM
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RE: Something Broke at the Track
Glad to hear it but I will tell you right now that the weak link in all of steedas stuff is the eurethane bushings that they use. It's not that the eurethane is bad itself, there are full blown race ones, but the eruethane that STEEDA uses is junk IMO. They gave me the song and dance too when I blew out the bushings in their LCA's THREE TIMES before I went with Metco. Yes, they were very nice and sent me new bushings twice but acted like it was an isolated incident and how they couldn't believe it happened and I have talked to MANY people who have blown out the steeda bushings.
PS - don't believe the crap their going to tell you about how 'the installer over-lubricated them' - Bet that's what they say...lol
Glad it wasn't something more serious.
Mark
PS - don't believe the crap their going to tell you about how 'the installer over-lubricated them' - Bet that's what they say...lol
Glad it wasn't something more serious.
Mark
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