[Brian]

i recently noticed that when i'm driving over really choppy washboard roads i can hear a sort of clacking noise from my rear passenger side.

sounds very much like a loose connection of some kind.

i have no experience of any kind with working on suspensions, any thougts of what i might check first?

i did overhaul my brakes this summer. is there any chance that a brake pad would be smacking around between the rotor and the pistons? (okay, i'm reaching!)



thanks.

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[flash]

a couple of things to look at that immediately come to mind:



sway bar connections

upper shock bolt

caliper bolts



here's the odd one - believe it or not, the front banana arm bushings can make the darndest noises - mine make a knocking noise right now that is really the ribber sqeaking against the aluminum, but at such a high speed that it sounds like a knock

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[unknown4u]

Last period I noticed the same noise what Brain describes.

I'd looked under the car and saw that the reason is probably the connection from the guiding arm and the rear axle carrier.

There seems to me that there is a rubber bushing inside. The rubber part worn out after 16 years of hard working.



After calling the OPC they told me I'd had to renew the complete guiding arm.



Thats a lot of money because they describe in the workshopmanual from a 944 that it can renewed. But they don't deliver the part that I needed.



Can somebody help me what kind of rubber bushing I need to buy and where I can order such a thing?? Or the measurements from it?



Thanks in advance.

Ritchie

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[unknown4u]

Lucky for me I found the bushings on ebay...$112,00

Hopefully it will be an easy fit.?

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