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Technical Steering clunk
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Steering clunk
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Yes, I did discover the exhaust can scrape on the island type speed bumps a few weeks ago.
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Not really.
I’m up and back at it. I’ve put the offside wheel back on and put it back on the ground. The steering isn’t attached to the hub and I’ve manually turned it lock to lock. No clunks.
Started the car and turned the steering lock to lock just with the nearside wheel connected to the steering and the clunk only happens just before and just after full lock in both left and right directions. The inner track rods still twitch per my first video clip.
There no movement in the outer track rod ball joint and the inner one seems stable too.
I suppose the answer is to disconnect the other ball joint and see what happens when there’s no load on the rack. Not sure what else it can be as far as an unskilled to reasonable home “mechanic” rolling about on the floor
It appears you're saying the clunk is the same with the car back on the floor, that'll be top mount failure.Not really.
I’m up and back at it. I’ve put the offside wheel back on and put it back on the ground. The steering isn’t attached to the hub and I’ve manually turned it lock to lock. No clunks.
Started the car and turned the steering lock to lock just with the nearside wheel connected to the steering and the clunk only happens just before and just after full lock in both left and right directions. The inner track rods still twitch per my first video clip.
There no movement in the outer track rod ball joint and the inner one seems stable too.
I suppose the answer is to disconnect the other ball joint and see what happens when there’s no load on the rack. Not sure what else it can be as far as an unskilled to reasonable home “mechanic” rolling about on the floor
Keep going! You'll get there, now disconnect the rack altogether.
Are we saying
You've changed these
And it's still doing this
You've changed these
And it's still doing this
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No, I gave up early because I couldn’t get the rack gaiter off. I’d only got as far as removing the offside outer track rod and had a feel of the inner expecting it to be loose. There’s no play in it at all. That’s when I gave the upright a turn; there’s no clunks when it’s on the ground.
The nearside track rods are still in situ and it’s still clunking and moving per the video. The clunk is definitely coming from the rack when it’s on full left lock. There’s no play in the track rod but the feel test points to it.
I’m bothered that the rack is able to move fore and aft in the housing. It’s only done a little over 46k miles and I’ve never had a car fail like this, even at 180k miles. Worried it’s made of chocolate.
A, stays still
B, wobbles about
Certainly looks to be this joint in the video
I guess untill the boot off it's hard to tell
Long screwdriver should loosen it enough to pull off
In the video the rack itself appears to stay still, as far as I can tell
B, wobbles about
Certainly looks to be this joint in the video
I guess untill the boot off it's hard to tell
Long screwdriver should loosen it enough to pull off
In the video the rack itself appears to stay still, as far as I can tell
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It’s odd that it’s still doing it even though it currently isn’t attached to the hub.
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I gave up!
I put a new outer track rod on yesterday and will revisit it when the car gets put through the MOT in August. It’s not going to be used much (20 miles a weeks until then and we’ve put up with it since getting the car); I have the track rod kit so it can wait and if it needs new uprights and top bearings, I can sort it all out then.
I put a new outer track rod on yesterday and will revisit it when the car gets put through the MOT in August. It’s not going to be used much (20 miles a weeks until then and we’ve put up with it since getting the car); I have the track rod kit so it can wait and if it needs new uprights and top bearings, I can sort it all out then.
