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I've tried to track this down before, without success, but I'm going to give it a shot because it seems to be getting worse. (I've had four mechanics try to solve it as well, including two dealers, and while a couple claimed success, none succeeded). There is a clunk sound from the front left area that occurs at low speed when turning either direction, and sometimes when going over a bump or up a driveway. If the clunk is heard when turning left, then it typically won't clunk again until turning right, as if it's going from side to side. Can the inner steering rod do this? What is a way to test it with the car stationary? I've checked just about everything else (ball joint, control rod, suspension bolts, outer tie rod). Axles are new, as are struts. There does seem to be a lot of axial play between the outer differential driver and the tripod bearing of the axle; could that make such a sound?
('97 9000 Aero 5spd)
posted by 99.250.199...
Posts in this Thread:
- front left clunk, TML , Wed, 6 Jul 2011 14:15:34 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: front left clunk - ball joint, tris, Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:35:03
- Re: front left clunk, Saaberite, Thu, 7 Jul 2011 19:48:20
- Another thing to check., jjacob, Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:59:04
- Re: C/V snap ring. (Broken)???, Saabnutt, Thu, 7 Jul 2011 06:57:56
- Re: front left clunk, DickT , Thu, 7 Jul 2011 04:43:50
- front left clunk, derf, Wed, 6 Jul 2011 19:10:01
- Re: front left clunk, SMP, Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:41:32
- Re: front left clunk - bushing caps?, Bill Homer , Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:08:41
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