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Offline snezza69

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Clunk from the steering!!!!
« on: September 01, 2006, 13:23:02 »
Occasionally I get a clunk from the steering, which I feel through the steering wheel.  I have just replaced the panhard rod bushes with Poly so its not that.  Everything else has just passed a stringent MOT type test.

What can it be?
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Clunk from the steering!!!!
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2006, 01:49:36 »
Recheck the panhard rod bush-bolts then, along with all the other balljoints for security and wear.  Check the UJs in the steering colum, check the colum for play.  It will be harder to find if it's intermittant but chances are one day it will become regular, then you can get someone to waggle the steering to make it clunk whilst you go and feel all the steering joints unitll you find the ones that clunks.
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« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2006, 09:24:32 »
Mine started with a clunk on the steering last year. It got worse, as they do, and the steering then began to go stiff. It was the UJ on the steering
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« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2006, 09:28:51 »
(pressed the wrong key then!) I took the rod off and started with a big can of WD40 and worked it bakward and forward in the vice until it freed off then put heavier lub into it. If it is the bottom UJ - cheap. Top one, as it was on mine, dear!!!

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