so ive been fitting a knocking sound in the passenger rear of my WK. i have pinpointed it to the rear swaybar but im at a loss as to what the hell to do about it. heres what i have done so far, keep in mind im running a rear addco:
- originally ran the addco with stock links, swapped to bwoody links and was fine and dandy for awhile. then the bwoodys got noisy and i ditched them
- ran the addco with omix-ada links and they were horrible. i could NOT torque them down enough to keep the in place and quiet, so i removed them and the knocking stopped
- ziptied the swaybar to the LCAs and there was no knocking only a clanking sound when the swaybar hit the swaybar after braeking a ziptie
- redid the whole rear suspension and found some OEM links for free and connected everything and torqued everything down as tight as i could, no problems. went as far as checking the shocks, and untightening and retorqueing the actual swaybar brackets)
which brings me to know- theyre knocking again. its like i cannot torque the body mounted bolt on the link enough. the bottom is torqued to as much as i can and its fine. but the top bolt either i cant tighten enough or i do tighten it as much as i can and a mile or so down the road and a turn or two later its knocking when i hit a bump/make a turn/etc.
im at the point where i want to ditch the whole swaybar, but she rides and handles so great with it connected. ive even contemplated grabbing a SRT one and selling the addco thinking its the issue.
thoughts? solutions? im calling bwoody today and see how much just a set of rear links will be. somethings got to give
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