Is this a single or erratic knock, or a continuous knock-knock-knock-knock?
Here is one way to test those U-joints: Put the car in neutral and cost at about 25 MPG. Do some reasonably quick S-turns, zig-zagging back and forth. If the knock-knock-knock appears as you turn, but not as you are going straight, it could be the U-jonts. Once I had an erratic knock back there, and it turned out to be that the eye had broken off of one end of a rear shock, and the end of the shock was smashing against the mounting stud every time I went over a bump. This was a bummer, since the car still had the original DeCarbon shocks, which had been in perfect working order. I tried a couple of different types of replacements, but the originals were better than any of them. Doug On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Jim Cullen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi listers..... > > I wonder if I could get some insight/advice on a knocking noise that seems > to > be coming from the RH side of my rear end. I notice it more @ once I get > up to > about 50 km/hr, especially over bumps (to the point I thought it was the > shock > absorber and replaced that to see if it disappears as it seemed to sound > like > the shock absorber was b bottoming outb b unfortunately, no joy there), > and when making left turns. _______________________________________________ [email protected] Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Suggested annual donation $11.47 Archive: http://www.team.net/archive Forums: http://www.team.net/forums Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spitfires/[email protected]
