We? You mean Venom?

 

Doing that today. only had a few mins of free time on Sat

 

Well I found a problem. Not sure it's the clunk, but it's an issue I need to address first.

Passenger side lower control arm (translink) bushing is shot. Need to replace that.

However not quite sure that's the cause of the clunk as I shot a GoPro vid showing it staying centered and not moving at all when the clunks are heard.

Fail on sway bar endlinks. Got them off the control arms but the nuts to the sway bar were heavily rusted and started to round off. I'll need to cut them off and didn't have necessary tools with me. The links did wiggle around pretty easy, so possible they are bad. I'll get a sawzall and good blades and hack them off in the next few weeks.

Ordered replacement whiteline bushings. I made a split bushing to put on the sides of the translink to try and keep it from moving around too much. I'm not convinced this is the source of the big clunk, but need to fix it first before proceeding.

 

I think that's the source of your problem. Endlinks are like mini-ball joints and shouldn't wiggle around very easily.

 

Guess solution will need to wait. I ordered some white-line bushings for the translink, and will need to get a sawzall for the old endlinks.

I'm in the middle of moving to a new house, so my tools are in disarray.


The end links were loose, but I couldn't feel any major slack in them. Still, I could grab them by hand and twist them around pretty good.

 

Ayyyyyyyyyyyyy


If not the endlinks, the sway bushing brackets need to be greased every so often...or at least on mine I'll start getting a "gushhhh" sound over bumps
Glad you were able to narrow it down.

 

The bushings looked pretty good. I'll change them regardless. Might be a few weeks before I can get to it all.

Other than the torn bushing on the translink, nothing looked obviously bad. I machined up a pair of split bushings from delrin and put one on each side of the control arm to stop it's front and back movement. Hopefully the parts come in soon.

 

Post pics of that split bushing apparatus.

 

None of it installed, but I have a pair I made for the opposite side, just in case. That bushing seemed fine but i'm going to install these anyway.

First, the torn bushing. As you can see I soaked the area in PB blaster for the upcoming disassembly. I'll keep soaking it until then.




And what I made. I just put one on each side. Just a temp repair to keep the arm centered so I don't chew up my tires any more.