Rear Sway Bar Noise Fix

[rdimpulser6]

I have the TRD gen 4 sway bar installed on a gen 3 camry. This could help others with similiar sway bar noise especially if you only hear it on the right side (passenger side) of the car.

Everyone seems to have clunks and annoying noise from their suspension. This is only for the sway bar. You may have other clunking noise due to endlinks and strut mounts etc.

Background on my car. All suspension parts are brand new. I even drove the car around without the rear sway bar to pinpoint my clunking noise. All my suspension was changed out in January so everything is broken in so if it gonna make any noises it should now. I never really got around to fixing the annoying noise until now.

Metal contact #1
Most likely the sway bar is hitting the right corner of the fuel tank. It is actually hitting the rear corner piece that can be bent upward. If the car is on the ground you will not see it hit as the struts and sway bars are pushed up. Lift the car up letting the wheels hang down and inspect the sway bar for scratches or metal contact. Run your fingers along the sway bar for nicks and scratches.

Posibilities as why you didn't have it before or after months of installation:
1.The reason you may be hearing the clunking now is that the sway bar bushing are completely broken in and have some play (they are suppose to), just enough to have metal contact with the tank. This is the most likely culprit as the fuel tank does not extend to the left side and the noise is only on the right.

2. the sway bar is thicker and may be just enough to cause metal contact.

Metal contact #2
This next contact point may only apply to an aftermarket sway bar especially the gen 4 sway bar.
You may have some contact with the middle of the sway bar against the no 2 lower arm on both sides (inner most arm) where they connect to the car.

1. On the TRD gen 4 sway bars are adjustable. If you leave it on the street setting, you will not hear the clunking noise from the middle lower arm attachment point. If you put it on the track setting this causes the sway bar to shift toward the back of the car leaving less of a gap between the middle of the sway bar and the lower arm attachement point. Hard bumps or coming out of a drive way at an angle can flex the bar enough to have contact. It is not a lot of contact, just enough to annoy the crap out of you. The attachment points have round washers that could be grinded about a mm or 2 to prevent this. This is only on the track setting.

Once installed on my car I left it on the track setting and didn't bother with the street setting. This is why I heard it from the get go. I put it on the street setting and bent the flange on the fuel tank and now no more clunking noise.
Hope this helps annyone.