'clunk' Noise

[EARMUFF]

Hey guys. Whenever i turn left hard, i get a clunk noise, and then when i straighten out, i get another clunk. I can feel it in the steering wheel. when i turn easy, it doest make any noise. what could this be?

[Abo Bob]

Probably your caster rod bush on one side. Get your head under the car and look at the front end of your caster rods and you will likely see some fluid oozing out of one or both of the bushes.

[Sonuku]

generally any noise from the suspension freaks me out.

take it in to get looked at if you cant figure it out yourself.

most suspension places will do a free quote, some tightasses like pedders are like $30.

[EARMUFF]

But i had all the bushes replaced at the start of this year, with superpro ones. I know the blokes at pedders, so thats where i take my car all the time. they even allow me in the workshop to giv em a hand and see what they do. I had my coilovers installed there last week, and went in on saturday and we took the bushes out and regreased em'. Thats why i dont understand what the noise is.

[Abo Bob]

So are you telling us you recently had work done on your car and now there is a clunk?

[(B1) MR_fanny]

may sound stupid but is the noise coming from the steering wheel itself?

[EARMUFF]

Yeh . I only noticed it after. We looked for it everywhere, but couldnt find what it is. I dunno. Im goin back this weekend to giv everything a once over. I just thought it could be sumthing obvious. It only does it when i corner quick.

[EARMUFF]

Na nutin cumin from the wheel

Edited September 24, 2008 by EARMUFF

[Abo Bob]

Loose wheel nuts?

[__PhaseShiftDown]

Probabaly the CV joint

[Rocky88]

Probabaly the CV joint

+1

This has CV joint written all over it. See a CV joint specialist (check yellowpages) and it shouldn't cost too much to fix it.

[SL33K]

yeah, mine does that too, when i turn left and`start turning the wheel straight i hear a clunk just one . but it doesnt keep doing it. it happens once in a while.

[Abo Bob]

No cv joints in the front of a GTST. Is that what you have?

[EARMUFF]

Yeh mate. S2 R33. I got told that it could be the steering rack. The situation was; i went into a double laned roundabout. The c*&t in the left lane cut across, so i swerved right, and the right hand side hit the gutter. Thats when i replaced the suspension and a couple of little bits. Yeh, i got told theres no cv joints. Could it be the steering rack? Are they expensive?

[~R33AzzA~]

I also have this issue with my 33. I had a checkup at pedders today, castor bushes are gone and a small amount of play in the rack is all they found on the front.

I also would like to know how much a rack would cost.

[ISC-Performance]

But i had all the bushes replaced at the start of this year, with superpro ones. I know the blokes at pedders, so thats where i take my car all the time. they even allow me in the workshop to giv em a hand and see what they do. I had my coilovers installed there last week, and went in on saturday and we took the bushes out and regreased em'. Thats why i dont understand what the noise is.

If the most recent thing that was installed was the coilovers then perhaps that is the issue? Either the top pillowball or the spring? Other then that if you lowered the car when you put the coilovers in you may be putting new stress on worn parts that you wouldn't have noticed before.

Ryan

[Abo Bob]

From memory a mate bought a rack for an R34 for about $150 from a wrecker.

Sounds like a possibility. If you jack up the front of the car, front wheels off the ground, try pulling the wheel back and forth in the same directions it steers to feel for free play.

[siksII]

Hey guys..

One thing it might be that I dont see mentioned is the steering wheel has a piece of metal that absorbs vibration mounted inside it. This can fall out of its mounting, then when you turn the wheel one way or another sometimes it will clunk over to the other side of the steering wheel.

Sounds like it might be what you are feeling.

Found the related thread on how to fix it:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/No...ing+wheel+clunk