clunk in the trunk...

[jig47]

Someone asked me if I had named my new car. In my head, I thought, "yea POS," But what came out of my mouth was "yea--Thumpy." If you don't get it, then you obviously don't share my pain.

[ironi]

i have the same stupid problem with the rear right. the tokico/teins with trd rsb and new strut mounts are in the mail. we'll see if that solves it. i'm convinced that i know some of the best mechanics in jersey and they all think it's the strut or the strut mount. i guess we'll see.

[cablemn]

i have the same stupid problem with the rear right. the tokico/teins with trd rsb and new strut mounts are in the mail. we'll see if that solves it. i'm convinced that i know some of the best mechanics in jersey and they all think it's the strut or the strut mount. i guess we'll see.

Hey!!! I thought this thread was dead. I still have the problem. I'm waiting for someone to finally figure it out. I hope youre the one. Please follow up and let us know if the strut is the problem.

[ironi]

i have the same stupid problem with the rear right. the tokico/teins with trd rsb and new strut mounts are in the mail. we'll see if that solves it. i'm convinced that i know some of the best mechanics in jersey and they all think it's the strut or the strut mount. i guess we'll see.

Hey!!! I thought this thread was dead. I still have the problem. I'm waiting for someone to finally figure it out. I hope youre the one. Please follow up and let us know if the strut is the problem.

sure, i'll keep you guys posted. by the way, i've heard of someone resolving this same issue on a camry by just tightening the 16mm nut at the top of the strut. apparently it gets loose after a while. the reason i'm not screwing around with that, is that i've been waiting for an excuse to get an upgraded suspension and this knocking sound is my blessing in disguise .

[ironi]

OK, here's the poop.

I got my Tokicos and Teins installed. There's no rattle as of now. In the process of taking off my stock struts, I confirmed that my rear right strut was completely shot, which may well have been the reason for the rattle. However, some things happened during the install which force me to think otherwise. My mechanic made a mistake installing the rear struts at first. It was an honest mistake, since he's never worked on Solara struts before. There is a spacer under the top nut on the stock struts, which is not very obvious to a cursory glance. The Tokicos come with the top nut but for some reason, the spacer is not included, which further assures the probability of forgetting it. Anyway, he forgot to take the spacer off the stocks and install it on the Tokicos. As the result, there was not enough pressure between the mount and the bottom spring seat and there was a horrible rattle coming from the rears. So we took the rear struts off and put the spacers on. result - no more rattle. Anyway, this made me think. There was a post on this forum earlier where someone claimed that the top nut on camry and solara struts sometimes gets loose which causes the rattle. i think this is entirely possible, since the rattle i experienced when the spacer was not installed sounded almost exactly the same as the rattle i had in my rear right stock strut prior to the install. If you have the rattle problem, i suggest you check out this possibility. It is by far the most likely cause that i can think of.

Anyway, good luck guys. Keep this post going. I'd like to know if anyone else ends up fixing the problem.

[cablemn]

i recently swapped out my stock sle springs for the solara sport springs and lo and behold the clunk is almost gone. i can barely hear it now. as soon as they come out with aftermarket struts ill make the move and then the clunk will be gone. And btw my left drift problem is gone also. my installer made sure to set the springs perfectly when he did the job.

Now i have to get rid of my farting sunroof as per the TSB and im good to go.