kamesama980
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- 2002 Protege5
front strut clunk (solved)
Here's one for the masses since my educated and experienced brain is coming up blank: My wife's car, '03 P5 auto ~100k. Replaced struts and mounts last summer. KYB gas-a-just struts, moog mounts, OE spring seats and rubbers. Has 10-15k on the parts and the left front strut mount has been clunking, it's been doing so for months but only bad enough for me to find it a month ago: as you turn the wheel, the torrington bearing (between the spring seat and strut mount that gets replaced with the mount) isn't turning. the spring binds up till there's enough force to break friction and pop the spring seat out of alignment and into the strut tower sheet metal going "ka-CHUNK".
Easy one I figured. Took it apart, cleaned, lubed the bearing. no change. called up rockauto and got a new mount (w/ bearing), gone for my 2 mile test drive but the wife's complaining about it when she gets home from work Monday.
Spring is indexed in the mounts and rubbers all lined up at the detents like it should be as far as I can tell. I'm open to ideas as to why the bearing is binding up instead of articulating.
Here's one for the masses since my educated and experienced brain is coming up blank: My wife's car, '03 P5 auto ~100k. Replaced struts and mounts last summer. KYB gas-a-just struts, moog mounts, OE spring seats and rubbers. Has 10-15k on the parts and the left front strut mount has been clunking, it's been doing so for months but only bad enough for me to find it a month ago: as you turn the wheel, the torrington bearing (between the spring seat and strut mount that gets replaced with the mount) isn't turning. the spring binds up till there's enough force to break friction and pop the spring seat out of alignment and into the strut tower sheet metal going "ka-CHUNK".
Easy one I figured. Took it apart, cleaned, lubed the bearing. no change. called up rockauto and got a new mount (w/ bearing), gone for my 2 mile test drive but the wife's complaining about it when she gets home from work Monday.
Spring is indexed in the mounts and rubbers all lined up at the detents like it should be as far as I can tell. I'm open to ideas as to why the bearing is binding up instead of articulating.
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