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Clunking/Popping Rear Toe Arms
I finished replacing my rear suspension upper arm and trailing arm bushings on each side, but now my passenger side toe arm is making a clunking or popping sound when I drive over bumps. I have exchanged some emails with Terry from Maximal Performance about this since I bought his toe arms late last year, and his camber arms a few years ago without any problems, but I'm running out of ideas. I know for a fact that the toe arm is making the noise because I had a friend lift the car less than an inch up and down, and I could feel the vibrations most prominently in the toe arm on the inside link.
I replaced a camber arm inside link last night because there was something like a few mm of play in it, but that arm was on the driver side, and this toe arm is still making that noise. I haven't checked the passenger side camber arm just yet for play, but as I recall during my bushing replacement, it was only the driver side inside link that I could tell was worn out. Hypothetically speaking, if my passenger side camber arm is ok, the only other possibilities I can see that would cause this is:
1.) My toe arms and camber arms have a little bit of spacing within the little raised lip on our non-turbo car sub-frames (normally used for the oblong washer bolts on the OEM arms) and the washers provided with the Maximal Performance arms. In my case on the passenger side, my toe arm is torqued more on the "toe in" side (towards the outside of the car), and my camber arm is torqued more towards the inside of the car. This was how I positioned it after the bushing project because I thought that my alignment could shift.
2.) The angle at which I am pulling on the torque wrench and holding on a breaker bar to torque the inner links down by myself may be causing my torque wrench to click before reaching the actual specified torque thanks to the fact that I'm holding each with one hand.
I'm sorry about the long post, but I didn't know how else to describe my situation. I hope this makes sense for you guys. Any suggestions of what else could cause this?
