I just got my H&R Street Coilovers, H-Sport lower control arms, and Whiteline Swaybar installed all at once. Now I am getting a CLUNKING noise when I go over bumps at slow speeds. I get the clunk noise both front and rear.

Looking at some older threads here and other forums the top nut on my strut might not be torqued properly.

Does anyone know the proper torque setting for the H&R coilovers, or if the noise is coming from somewhere else?

The H&R nut looks a lot bigger than the stock nut.

Thanks in advance.

 

Sounds like you might not have tightened the endlinks in all the way. Remember you have to use two spanners to tighten the bolt (one to hold it at the location right next to the dust boot or whatever you want to call the thing that guards the bearing of the endlink, and one spanner to tighten the nut that's visible)

 

I will check the endlinks again when I have time. I think their suppose to be torqued to 41 ft lbs, correct me if I am wrong. I would still like to find out what the top nut on the strut is suppose to be torqued to. JIC that is the problem.

Thanks for the tips.

My car corners flat without all the understeer. I can't wait until I finish up with alignment and maybe corner balance. Just have to fix this annoying noise.

 

i have no idea as to the correct torque, but i know a lot of people don't know how to tighten them, cos it requires two spanners, and that causes clunking

Good luck

 

I checked my endlinks again. The front endlinks came loose from the swaybar. I guess it wasn't torqued properly. I also tightened the rear lower strut mount to 103 lbs.

All of the noise is gone except for the raking I am doing with the air dam. I might have raise it a little. Weird thing is the passenger side springs settled lower than the driver side.


Thanks everybody.

 

How does it handle with respect to helping keep the tires on the ground over bumps n corners?

Yea, even top quality springs set different. It took a couple of weeks to get my KW's stable. Then they stayed dead.

 

Seems like the suspension rebounds from a bump a little quicker than stock. The bump steer is lessened prob because of my new non-RF tires.

The car is more flat in the corners with a little bit of oversteer. The ride is less bumpy than stock, again it is hard to tell because I switched out the tires and have lighter wheels.