camry noise

[dknows003]

i droped my car and changed the struts. I have a 95 4cyl. sealed tokico struts and eib. springs. Ever since i got this hook up my car been making this thumping noise off of every little bump. what can it be

[thisdj78]

Join the "thump" club.........I think it has something to do with the struts, I haven't gotten mine checked out yet.

[dknows003]

i am thinking about puting on my stock springs and finding out

[dknows003]

also if i want to drop the car with stock springs how many turns sould i cut

[grapefury]

cutting is not recommended

[YESCA]

Originally posted by grapefury
cutting is not recommended

especally with stock springs! Also I have a gen 4 and I have the same problem with my H&R + Tociko setup. Have your strut mounts checked and see if they went bad, bad strut mounts can cause the struts to sound bad and make it sound like the struts clunk.......did you put them on yourself or did a shop?

[wontonjohnny]

is it comming from the front ???
i had this sound from my passinger front strut

if from the front then its for sure spring clearance issues

what happening is the spring is contacting the bottom spring seat. If you jack your car up and look or feel with your fingers the paint on your spring is probably rub off....

If you find this on your springs a quick fix i figured out is to rotate the bottom springs seat about a 1/8 of a turn clockwise

If you dont know what piece im talking about, its the part of the strut that the springs sits on. It has a little tounge that supposed to be alligned with the sturt. simply take a crow bar or something similar and use the tounge and strut as couples and turn til that tounge thing is about 1/8 turned clockwise

i dont know if this is bad for your alignment or not .. but my wheels still look and drive staright

[Nick]

strut mounts, sway bar links, loose bolts on the strut towers, worn spring insulators....

if you cheaped out when they wanted to replace stuff when you got the struts installed, you`re paying for it now

[dknows003]

i had this struts and springs taken out three different times by three different people. the last people to work on it was the toyota dealer and i replaced everything that delt with the struts and the springs. Still make that noise. I am thinking about just putting in the stock springs and cuting them 1/2 a turn. would that be a smart thing to do. Need opinions and some ideas to help fix this problem. Remember i am not the only one with this problem so you just wont be helping me out you well help everyone else with this problem. thank u

[Trix13]

dont cut your spring ,its worst that you can do!!!
put stock springs back if you want , but DONT CUT THEM.

I have same problem on my car after 2in. drop
cant find it. but my car Matrix.

[CamryWhat?]

All of you check you strut mount bar i will take a pic of it tom and show ya...When i droped my car it started to do that and it sucks lol its like a 15 USD$ peice nothing much not hard to fix i am just lazy pix come tomorow


....Like oldman Said it happens