I have a "driving me nuts" clunk in my rear suspension that is...well, driving me nuts. It only occurs on hard right hand turns. It is a definite clunk, but the noise sounds like something is binding. If you turn left after it has clunked, it clunks again, but this time like something is unbinding. It will also 'unclunk' if you back up, but only it is in the "binded" state. I made a diy chassis sensor and the clunk sounds like it is coming from the spring plate end- where the t-bar protrudes through the cover.
I have replaced the spring plate bushings twice - once with ERP, then again with Neatrix. I also replaced the spring plate cover - from our host. The noise started after I installed the ERP, but the prior owner had done some funky drilling on one bolt hole in the old spring plate cover. I have owned the car for six years and am just now uncovering it.
The picture you are looking at is a new spring plate cover and
believe it or not a two DAY old Neatrix bushing. The gap at the top is about an 1/8th of an inch, the bottom about 3/8ths. It looks to me like a 20 year old bushing. The less than two year ole ERP's looked the same way, so I took them out, but they were obviously not the issue. (Chuck has great products, this is in no way a slight toward ERP, just my desparation for a solution.)
What is wrong with my suspension? Bent t-bar? Bent spring plate? The quarter was replace, but the tub doesn't appear as though it was touched. It just doesn't seem as though things are lined up correctly between the t-bar, the spring plate and the spring plate cover.
Has anyone seen something like this before? I don't know what is wrong, but I know something isn't right.
