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The clunk clunk sounds still there on my 95 camry!! i got the strut mounts checked and they said they were of, sway bar bushings were ok. No tools in trunk to make noise, spare tire is tighten . What can it be??? Is like a headache with no solution!! PLZ help me out with suggestions! THanx
Could be bad struts, not just the bushings. Or maybe in the sides of the trunk, under the carpet you have something banging around. My car has the jack and tire iron in there. Maybe there's something hidden under the spare tire.
After you have checked all the things in the trunk that have been mentioned, check the rear lateral controls rods. They are the 2 rods on each side that run outward (laterally) from the centerline of the car toward each rear wheel. The bushing in the rear-most one on each side has a tendancy to go and sometimes cause a clunk. Jack up the wheel on that side and grab hold of the tire at 9:00 and 3:00 o'clock. Try to move the tire side to side and inward and outward. Do you hear the clunk. If you do, chances are you can stick your head under there and observe the bushing in the rear rod moving and making the clunking sound. If so, the only fix is to replace that rod and do an alignment. I believe it's a dealer only part and it runs around $160. The bushing is not available by itself, at least from the dealer.
I would re-check the swaybar. I had similiar clunk sound and was able to recreate the sound by shaking my swaybar, It was hitting the gas tank. I changed out the bushings and now all is fine. But if you are sure it is not that then I have no idea.
I would re-check the swaybar. I had similiar clunk sound and was able to recreate the sound by shaking my swaybar, It was hitting the gas tank. I changed out the bushings and now all is fine. But if you are sure it is not that then I have no idea.
I mean im going by what the mechanic is telling me, and he said theres nothing wrong with it, imma probably take it to another mechanic 2 get a different opinion or somenthing. But tommorrow when i get a chance im going to shake the sway bar and see if there is something loose down there.
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I have a 94 Camry with a similar sound. I've been told it was likely the sway bar bushings that are kinda square and separate the bar from the frame. The bushings come in 15mm 16mm and 17mm sizes depending on the bar. One needs to measure the bar with a wrench or whatever to see the size. Mine was 15mm.
They are about $10 at NAPA and NAPA also carries the bushings for the end of the bar. I have no idea if the sound is from the bushings but sooner or later I'll find out.
I'm going to change them sooner or later but at the moment am fixing the brakes.
I had a hollow thumping sound from the rear of my camry, and I did two things, so I can't honestly say which one fixed the problem. But here's what I did:
1) Replaced rear end links (found a set on ebay for $30 shipped, 1 year warranty, took 10 minutes to replace).
2) Removed sway bar bushings, wrapped sway bar where bushings sit with a lot of teflon tape, then sprayed the inside of the bushing with lithium grease, then reinstalled. The teflon tape made the bushing fit tighter around the sway bar.
My old end links did not look bad, nor were the joints loose, so I think that my biggest fix for the problem was the sway bar bushing tape/grease. I did all this after I took it to a mechanic who said that nothing was wrong with the rear of my car and said that it's 15 years old, it'll make noise... Well, after doing the two things above, it made the noise go away.
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