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cruisn76 · 06-02-2009, 07:36 PM

I recently installed K-Sport Coilovers on my GEN3 with my TRD Sway bar. My buddy also redid my rear subframe bushings. After the installing the K-Sports I am getting an annoying clunking metal sound in the driver rear. I checked the end links and it is good, I checked the sway bar bushing and it is also good. What else can I look at to fix this problem.?????

I am heading to the shop tomorrow to pull the sway bar and redo the teflon.

ANyone have a similar problem when they installed their K-Sport Coilovers with a TRD/Whiteline Sway bar combination?

Any minor detail would be great.

Thanks in advance

***ASG14*** · 06-03-2009, 01:02 AM

Do you have the Gen 4 sway bar bushing brackets instead of the Gen 3 ones?

cruisn76 · 06-03-2009, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by ASG14

Do you have the Gen 4 sway bar bushing brackets instead of the Gen 3 ones?

Yea, that was the first I bought for the RSB. I bushing sits flush with the gen4 bracket vs the gen3 bracket.

What else can u think of?

I am getting so peeved with the rear end of my car that I might just get rid of the car.

The rear end has been a problem ever since I started lowering thwarted car

***ASG14*** · 06-03-2009, 11:29 AM

How are you sure the sway bar link is good? Have you tried to tighten it more? I thought the same one my car, but turned out it was just shy of being fully tightened.

cruisn76 · 06-03-2009, 11:59 AM

The shop just tightened the ring on the coilovers that attach to the endlinks. The sound on one side was eliminated, but after driving 10km the other side started *cling* *clung*

What is the known issue with the TRD RSB rubbing against something underneath?

I bought some rubber tubing with the same diameter and was going to start putting it around the RSB (like sound deadening when metal hits metal)

***ASG14*** · 06-03-2009, 12:24 PM

The RSB itself will not be the cause unless it;s bent. I think it;s still a bad end link or the coil over itself.

ECale3 · 06-03-2009, 12:54 PM

Clunking could also be a strut mount couldn't it?

***ASG14*** · 06-03-2009, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ECale3

Clunking could also be a strut mount couldn't it?

Yeah, but don't coilovers use a metal mount not the oem one? I was thinking the mount myself as well.

cruisn76 · 06-04-2009, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by ASG14

Yeah, but don't coilovers use a metal mount not the oem one? I was thinking the mount myself as well.

Yea the coilovers have a metal mount.

Update: here is something that was over looked and didn't occur to either me or my buddy at the shop.

Since the endlink has a very tight pivot, my endlink was kinda croaked and all it took was to twist it straight at 90 degrees.

Although the rear driver side link had croaked stance it did not make those sounds. And after adjusting rear passenger link, the sound has disappeared for now!

Thanks Adam for your help