dn1984
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I'm lowered, and have Pedder's heavy duty strut mounts that came pre-installed on their lowering kit (matching springs/shocks/struts). Had it for about 10k miles now, no issues. Recently it has started developing a very slight clunk on bumpy roads and speed bumps, had to listen real closely to hear it. No issues with steering and handling.
Fast forward to a few days ago and I'm installing my Steeda strut tower brace. It was a huge pain in the ass to get seated right mainly due to the incorrect video instructions provided by them (they said to put the spacers on the passenger side, should have been driver side). Got it on finally, torqued everything down to 35ftlbs.
Went for a drive, seemed fine. Clunks from before seemed a little louder, which isn't abnormal since in my experience any suspension modification will result in added NVH. Few days later, took a highway offramp left hand turn very hard at about 50mph to test it out. Got home and noticed the clunk was louder. Drove around some more and it was clunking way louder and now on normal bumpy roads instead of just speed bumps and larger low speed bumps. Sounded so bad I thought my control arm or something busted.
Got under the car tried to wiggle everything around, couldn't find anything loose. Even the sway bar brackets. Checked my spacer to hub nut torque, all good. Wheel to spacer torque, all good. Did a visual on my strut tower brace, seemed fine and looked like it was seated fine. Figured some bushing or bearing was bad somewhere.
Drove to work the next day and had one of my techs take a look just to make sure. He asked if I made sure the strut tower brace was seated correctly. Of course I did. Who does this guy think I am, some idiot? He said it was probably a bad strut mount just based on the noise and my guarantee that the strut tower brace was seated correctly. Got home and immediately ordered Ford Racing heavy duty strut mounts along with Steeda lateral links with extended ball joints (was going to do that anyways).
Woke up today and decided to double check a couple things again. May as well check the torque on the strut mount nuts, right? Well lo and behold all of them needed at least another full rotation to torque back down to 35ftlbs, which I attribute to things finally settling after driving 30 miles or so. Took it out for another drive on some normal and bumpy roads....silence. Even quieter than before the strut tower brace.
So long story short...I am that idiot. We've all had moments like this. But yeah...always check stuff after driving it, especially strut mount nuts when there isn't much thread on the bolt left because of spacers on your strut tower brace. LOL
Fast forward to a few days ago and I'm installing my Steeda strut tower brace. It was a huge pain in the ass to get seated right mainly due to the incorrect video instructions provided by them (they said to put the spacers on the passenger side, should have been driver side). Got it on finally, torqued everything down to 35ftlbs.
Went for a drive, seemed fine. Clunks from before seemed a little louder, which isn't abnormal since in my experience any suspension modification will result in added NVH. Few days later, took a highway offramp left hand turn very hard at about 50mph to test it out. Got home and noticed the clunk was louder. Drove around some more and it was clunking way louder and now on normal bumpy roads instead of just speed bumps and larger low speed bumps. Sounded so bad I thought my control arm or something busted.
Got under the car tried to wiggle everything around, couldn't find anything loose. Even the sway bar brackets. Checked my spacer to hub nut torque, all good. Wheel to spacer torque, all good. Did a visual on my strut tower brace, seemed fine and looked like it was seated fine. Figured some bushing or bearing was bad somewhere.
Drove to work the next day and had one of my techs take a look just to make sure. He asked if I made sure the strut tower brace was seated correctly. Of course I did. Who does this guy think I am, some idiot? He said it was probably a bad strut mount just based on the noise and my guarantee that the strut tower brace was seated correctly. Got home and immediately ordered Ford Racing heavy duty strut mounts along with Steeda lateral links with extended ball joints (was going to do that anyways).
Woke up today and decided to double check a couple things again. May as well check the torque on the strut mount nuts, right? Well lo and behold all of them needed at least another full rotation to torque back down to 35ftlbs, which I attribute to things finally settling after driving 30 miles or so. Took it out for another drive on some normal and bumpy roads....silence. Even quieter than before the strut tower brace.
So long story short...I am that idiot. We've all had moments like this. But yeah...always check stuff after driving it, especially strut mount nuts when there isn't much thread on the bolt left because of spacers on your strut tower brace. LOL
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