changed my drop-links today (stabliser/anti-roll bar links)

[carl0s]

I changed all four today, and the car is so much quieter except that my rear hatch rattle is back only a year after replacing the rubbers.

 

Angle-grinder didn't exactly make light work of the job I had to grind the fronts from the bolt-side instead of just grinding off the nut.

 

I have a full set of front control-arms on their way to me (£860 incl. vat from Toyota). I think I might not need them now. Anybody after a cheap set?

[merckx]

Carlos, has the clonking you were getting while braking gone now?

[carl0s]

Carlos, has the clonking you were getting while braking gone now?

 

has it 'eck!

 

I have the perfect way of explaining the sound though.

With wheel removed, if you turn the front brake disk so that it clonks on the hub-nuts, that's pretty much exactly the noise I'm getting.

 

I wonder if the holes in the brake discs are just too big / stretched? They certainly are a little bit large, else it wouldn't be possible to turn the disc that little bit.

 

Presuming the above explanation fits yours too?

[merckx]

has it 'eck!

 

I have the perfect way of explaining the sound though.

With wheel removed, if you turn the front brake disk so that it clonks on the hub-nuts, that's pretty much exactly the noise I'm getting.

 

I wonder if the holes in the brake discs are just too big / stretched? They certainly are a little bit large, else it wouldn't be possible to turn the disc that little bit.

 

Presuming the above explanation fits yours too?

Yeah, it sounds the same.

 

Cannot get it to do it going forward , but it's happening when reversing now.

 

Might take the wheel off and have another look.