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My new on-car bushing removal kit showed up at 9 PM last night. I'm going to try to change out the rear shock bushings tomorrow without pulling the whole stupid knuckle assembly off the car. If that doesn't work, then I'll just park the Z until my new 30-ton press arrives and do it the hard way. I'm really getting sick of the clunking noise still being there now that the new suspension is on.
Wow. You guys definitely got more snow than we did yesterday.
btw, nice job with that radio. lol I don't know how you manage to find the time to do all this stuff and not have a nagging woman at home. That's awesome.. Anyway, this is what I'm doing.
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Yeah we got like a solid foot of snow, it sucked, and was really windy... Funny thing you mentioned my wife, actually kinda messed up... While I was finishing up my Frankenstein radio she was outside snow blowing...
Im a pretty lucky dude I guess because she seems to love cleaning the driveway.
Damn rigjt, she did a better job than I would have done. I make one opening wide enough to get one car out. She does the whole thing, and even the sidewalk around my corner lot.
I was scrolling down the screen and flashed past her pic and thought, "Whoa, Kinjaz, what?!" Then I backed it up and turns out I was close but not quite. "Ohhhhhhhhh, Ninjas, not Kinjaz...."
Yeah we got like a solid foot of snow, it sucked, and was really windy... Funny thing you mentioned my wife, actually kinda messed up... While I was finishing up my Frankenstein radio she was outside snow blowing...
Im a pretty lucky dude I guess because she seems to love cleaning the driveway.
I call her the snow ninja
Haha, nice. On the plus side, she'll at least have music to listen to next time she clears the driveway.
Warmed up to about 45f so I took Betty off the jack stands, torqued the suspension while on the ground (which wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be) and took her out for a short drive.
New Bilstein B6’s, Mood sway bar links and Prothane sway bar bushing = No more freeway bounce! Didn’t get to push it too hard because the roads are covered in gravel.
Now just have to put the front back on the stands, pull the wheels and reinstall a kotter pin on each side and that will be that.
On the cell phone you just hit that little mountain picture and follow the prompts. Thats what I do anyways. This site makes it very easy to upload photos.
My new on-car bushing removal kit showed up at 9 PM last night. I'm going to try to change out the rear shock bushings tomorrow without pulling the whole stupid knuckle assembly off the car. If that doesn't work, then I'll just park the Z until my new 30-ton press arrives and do it the hard way. I'm really getting sick of the clunking noise still being there now that the new suspension is on.
I just wrapped up the job and replaced the rear shock mount bushing on the driver's side (going to deal with the passenger side later, since I had to drop the axle and spring to get the kit to work properly.) Still, I didn't have to remove much and was able to change out the bushing on the car, which was my preference all along. The bushing kit is OKAY from the cup end and for the studs and end bearings, but I still needed to use a 1-inch impact socket to actually drive the bushing out.
(So... the drum roll... I'm happy to report the clunking from the rear is GONE!! ) <--- NOPE!
EDIT: I spoke too soon. The clunk has returned after less than 5 miles.
To reiterate, some of the things I'd already tried:
1. New mounting plate gasket + lube
2. KYB shock mount kit
3. New Koni shocks
4. New Moog control arms
5. New Moog end links & Hotchkis sway bars
6. Z1 Motorsports Prothane diff mounts
Again, the suspension & diff mount project was already in the pipe, so I had planned to do it anyway (and I'm really pleased with the result.) I hoped that the swap would cause the clunking sound in the back to go away, but no dice, Chicago. It turned out to be the rear shock mount bushing all along. The original bushing I pulled was jiggly, like a pig in a blanket. I'll get to the passenger side in a few weeks; no rush since it isn't clunking.
Last edited by zakmartin; Jan 8, 2018 at 12:43 PM.
Half way to work. Heard some stuff... maybe. Could it be? By the time I parked in the garage, the clunking was back.
I'm getting microphones. The weird thing is, everything I've replaced so far needed replacing. The clunk is like the magical pot of brown at the end of a turd rainbow.
Well.. I ran over a fuking huge dead deer this morning on my way to work. Saw it at the last second and thought, ah ***. Had to pull over cuz ***** was dragging. It completely ripped out my front passenger side wheel well splash guard.. Could be worse. Still fuking irritated.
Cool project.
) <--- NOPE!
