bighands 0 Posted April 12, 2004 Pick ya brain time again boys n girls, my C has developed a very nasty sound, whenever i stop or speed up, not stop dead just when the weight is kinda thrown back or forward, from the passanger foot well there is a very nasty sounding KLUNK, i have looked underneath and cant find anything out of place, bushes ect, and all engine mounts intact!!! any ideas??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henny 0 Posted April 12, 2004 jack the car up and check for play on the wishbone, and on the strut towards the top (take the wheel off! ;) )could be a dead top mount or wishbone bush... I'd place cash on it being one of these two, or an engine mount (probably gearbox if it's near the passenger footwell...) :| Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bighands 0 Posted April 13, 2004 cool! but this is a VERY nasty sounding clunk! more of a bang! the top mounts, it u mean the rubber things at the top of the suspension are new i know that, but they seem loose when it is jacked up?!?! would there be any visable signs? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Bacon 5 Posted April 13, 2004 Over to probs with this one.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henny 0 Posted April 13, 2004 Loud BANG is most likely to be engine mounts... :? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bighands 0 Posted April 14, 2004 the engine mounts look ok, but how can i tell? also its not when the engine is put under strain, it does it with the clutch down?? cheers lads, bit of an ongoing one this! no one can tell me whats wrong with it! mechanic that is Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elwigglero 0 Posted April 15, 2004 My g60 made the same metal on metal clunk(real loud) and it turned out that all three of my engine mounts had collapsed. wasnt cheap Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dr_mat 0 Posted April 15, 2004 First things first on stuff like this is to make ABSOLUTELY DOUBLE-CHECKED SURE that it's not just somethin smacking around in the glove box, or the shelves underneath it. The number of times I've been trying to work out what "that strange noise" is and realised it's just the phone/screwdriver/tape/bit of metal I wedged in the glove box two days earlier is just not true... In fact once I had a sound like a stone rolling around on plastic. Funnily enough, I found a stone rolling around on a plastic shelf, but it took three days to find it... :) Assuming you've taken everything out of the car and it still makes the noise, then you're looking for suspension probs by the sounds of it - struts, top mounts, even brake caliper carriers are possibles. The only real way to tell is to get the car jacked up and stand underneath pushing and pulling things! Make sure your ball joints are ok, also checking the steering parts (track rod ends etc), then check the wishbone mounts, and move on to stuff like the steering rack! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
