k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,040 Member For: 16y 8m 8d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 27/02/20 11:25 AM Share Posted 27/02/20 11:25 AM you've got to share stuff on this forum not just ask advise off one person all the time haha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camo86T Silver Donating Members 1,810 Member For: 10y 10m 6d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 27/02/20 07:31 PM Share Posted 27/02/20 07:31 PM (edited) Not the greatest pics from this angle but you can make out the profile of the leaves. If you look closely at the second pic you can see the rebound leaf on top of the pack and where it stops just after the shackle clamp plate. After fitting the rebound leaf I was out of U-bolt length* so I removed the baby leaf right on the bottom, don't think it makes a heap of difference. *seems BS as there's plenty of thread hanging out but those poly bushes compress to the sh*thouse, if I clamped the top and bottom plates with a big arse G-clamp I may be able to fit the small leaf back on. The mods on the bottom plates are angles I welded on to stop the warping when tightening U-bolts for the millionth time, there isn't a lot of strength on the inner edge when standard and decent torque distorts them as you can see in OP's pics above. Edited 27/02/20 07:36 PM by camo86T 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithfkn Member 54 Member For: 5y 4m 28d Posted 29/02/20 04:44 AM Author Share Posted 29/02/20 04:44 AM Thanks legend. Yours definitely look more "together" if that makes sense and with better camber. Probably a product of that rebound leaf. Did you use those black crush plate washers when you got the leafs? I didn't install them in mine, wasn't even sure where to put them exactly! Did you put grease between the poly pads and leafs? Sorry for bugging you mate, just trying to work out what is wrong with mine as it's looking pretty similar to yours! On 27/02/2020 at 9:50 PM, Admin (as if) said: yer ive got the same king leafs, and took a photo and sent to Jeturbo years ago as I was worried the same as you. kings said its normal. does look funky but oh well. Everyone is saying it's normal haha It's just the creaking/clunking I can't get my head around! On 27/02/2020 at 10:25 PM, k31th said: you've got to share stuff on this forum not just ask advise off one person all the time haha Agreed. I lurk too much, have for years until I bought one and only think to post when it's pi$$ing me off haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,432 Member For: 14y 11m 23d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 29/02/20 09:34 AM Share Posted 29/02/20 09:34 AM I know another guy who lowered his fg ute and it had clunky noises. never found out the issue. I guess I just got lucky with mine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithfkn Member 54 Member For: 5y 4m 28d Posted 14/03/20 07:28 AM Author Share Posted 14/03/20 07:28 AM So I got Suspension City to have a good look over it and identified there wasn't enough grease in the front eye bushes. They slapped some in and off she went. Awesome blokes to deal with too, so helpful and quick. Did it on the spot. They also mentioned that the springs winding up like that were normal! Bugger me. I'm getting the odd knock here and there when slow turning. Buggered if I know what it is! Thanks all for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,040 Member For: 16y 8m 8d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 14/03/20 07:29 AM Share Posted 14/03/20 07:29 AM generally it's LCA bushes or ball joints if you get bumps when slow turning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithfkn Member 54 Member For: 5y 4m 28d Posted 14/03/20 07:37 AM Author Share Posted 14/03/20 07:37 AM In the rear it's doing it. Haven't even touched the front yet 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,040 Member For: 16y 8m 8d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 14/03/20 07:50 AM Share Posted 14/03/20 07:50 AM might be your exhaust hitting your suspension or something, then? hard to guess at the back of a ute as there's not much really to "bump" about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithfkn Member 54 Member For: 5y 4m 28d Posted 15/03/20 10:17 PM Author Share Posted 15/03/20 10:17 PM it comes from the rear left predominantly , might be just a quirk of the car, it's been happening for the whole 8 months since I bought it. Naturally I didn't notice it when I test drove it as I had rose tinted glasses from that turbo whistle 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithfkn Member 54 Member For: 5y 4m 28d Posted 28/04/20 09:20 PM Author Share Posted 28/04/20 09:20 PM Update on this. Turned out to be the gears and pins inside the LSD being super slack, there was a tonne of play. The clutches were surprisingly good. New unit in and all good now, not one clunk/knock in the back and feels super tight. Shout out to Mobile Diff Repairs in Dandenong. Do have a knock though putting the car into reverse and changing from 1st to 2nd, sometimes 2nd to 3rd. Have a feeling the lowered leafs have thrown out the pinion angle or tailshaft making the centre bearing bump because of the flex in the shaft. What have you guys done to fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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