cool, everything sounds great. What is the problem with the shocks. Want a better ride or they feel like they are going already

 

Jas
Is you suspension bumping off your bump stops? Is there enough room in travel on your fronts without cutting your stops?

 

something just came up a few days ago. a knocking sound. i thought it was my sway bar getting loose. that's what it sounded like. i tightened it up, an 1/8th of a turn. i hope it's not because i didn't install clamps to surround my sways. that would suck. i didn't that would become an issue.
but it's not going away. then i thought it was a problem with the bump stops. not there either.
when i turn, it knocks. i know the stock suspension may have a issue with the lowering. but i thought i'd get more out of 'em. so i'm taking it in to get looked at, and get it reevaluated. i'll let you know what problem i find. but my next thing to look at is the shocks.

 

no, i've never bumped, front or back. that's why i went with the h-techs. if i went lower, it would've become an issue.

 

great thanks for in info Jas and keep me posted, I am gonna wait until I am sure we are finished with snow here before I get it dropped, so it should be about another month or so before I make the move.

 

What did you end up finding out?

 

gting - i'm still looking. believe it or not. i think i just need to regrease my bushings. it doesn't squeak, it knocks. i think it has something to do with the lateral movement of the sway bar. so i'm getting those clamps and regreasing the bushings this week. i'll ket you know what i find.

 

holy crap!!!!!!!!!! it was just a stupid end link. the other bolt on the end link (the one you don't undo when you install a sway bar) on the driver's side, was loose. i must have taken that bar off and looked at everything about 3 times before we (my wife helped) figured it out. when i went under my car it wasn't in my view, so i didn't notice it, until i was putting it back on for the fourth time and recreated that noise, so i started looking around and found it. who would have thought that a factory bolt would come loose? i tell you what - i wish every factory bolt was that easy to loosen (i.e. exhaust, cats, etc...). those things don't just come off. anyway, she drives like new again. so i have renewed faith in my h-tech's and hotchkis sways.

 

Sweet!!

 

I had the same problem with my hotchkis sways. I had the same knocking sound, and thought a front shock was bad.

The problem was, since I installed them myself using just jacks and no ramps, is that I couldn't fully tighten the endlink bolt on the front swaybar because the swaybar was not in a neutral position. I should have used jack stands and jacked up the wheel on the side where I was tightening the bolt to put that side in a more neutral position. Also, the stock sway bars don't wiggle around like the hotchkis (stock's have a bent end whereas hotchkis are open ended for that adjustability), another reason why the endlink bolt can get loose.

 

what bothered me was that it was not the one that i had to move. it was the other end of the endlink. what factory bolt you know of comes loose?