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Down to a clicking noise after replacing wheel Bearings and Tierod ends

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My wife has a 08 Base model she had a large clucking sounds that were getting worse. Found out the tie rod ends and wheel bearing where both bad. After that is done 98% of the noise is now gone. I am just down to a clicking sound now and then. It happens when she is turning or some times over heavy bumps. For it to happen when turning she either has to be braking hard or accelerating hard. Or if there is a transition into a parking lot like a bump.
I can get the sound out of the car in the garage. I have to get my hands on my roofline and shake the car very hard. Enough to where you can hear the fuel sloshing back and forth for while after I am done. I notice that the cars settles back fast. I did not see any oil coming from the strut when I replaced the wheel bearing.

After I did the wheel bearings and Tie rod ends the car got an alignment and now issues where found. I would think if it is a Lower ball joint that would have been found in the alignment. When I am rocking the car the sound is coming from around the tire area. I do not think it is the top mount.
Thank you for any help.
My wife has a 08 Base model she had a large clucking sounds that was getting worse. Found out the tie rod ends and wheel bearing where both bad. After that is done 95% of the noise is now gone. I am just down to a clicking sound. It happens when she is turning or some times over heavy bumps. For it to happen when turning she either has to be braking hard or accelerating hard. Or if there is a transition into a parking lot like a bump.
I can get the sound out of the car in the garage. I have to get my hands on my roofline and shake the car very hard. Enough to where you can hear the fuel sloshing back and forth for while after I am done. I notice that the cars settles back fast. I did not see any oil coming from the strut when I replaced the wheel bearing.

After I did the wheel bearings and Tie rod ends the car got an alignment and now issues where found. I would think if it is a Lower ball joint that would have been found in the alignment. When I am rocking the car the sound is coming from around the tire area. I do not think it is the top mount.
Thank you for any help.
 


id be thinking lower control arms, i chased a clunk for some time, changed everything, it needed to be changed anyway, but the last thing i changed was the lca's and that made all the clunks go bye bye, the shops who did my alignments never said the lca's were bad.

could also be broken sway bar ends, or bad sway bar end links.
 


if you search your year car and this part matches yours, it should be good to go. you can always stop at the local parts store, they are cheap enough not to order them on line.
 
Weird part is none of the locsl parts stores online show the links that are on the car. Amazon shows both versions. Kind of weird.

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I have the same sort of clunk. Whenving i turn right, brake, accel, or go over bumps, it will clunk. I just replaced both my LCA's and sway bar links and wheel bearings and I still get it. Im heated needless to say and don't know what else to replace.
 
PioneerGTP said:
I have the same sort of clunk. Whenving i turn right, brake, accel, or go over bumps, it will clunk. I just replaced both my LCA's and sway bar links and wheel bearings and I still get it. Im heated needless to say and don't know what else to replace.
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if the tie rods are ok, id be looking at the strut mounts.

pop the hood start the car, then rock the wheel left and right, watch the center of the strut mount, if that bolt is moving back and fourth, you need mounts. the rubber under the bolt will look melted or beat to crap as well.

the easiest way to change them is to buy new mounts, then shop around at a few front end shops and ask how much they charge to change them if you bring them in, in hand.

i was charged 15 a strut to change the mounts.
 


start the car close the door with a open window, reach in grab the steering wheel and move it left to right, while doing that, watch the bolts in the strut mounts. like 10 to 2, and back, over and over. do it fast, and do it slow.
 
Ok for me it was the end links. After replacing them I can rock the car back and forth and no sound.

This was the drivers side that was making the noise. It was bent a little.

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Checked the passenger side. It was one piece just a little over a week ago!

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This looks so much better and the car feels better too!

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What I have replaced in the last month!

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out with the old crap, in with the new. :)

i dont think i ever unbolted a old end link, they always break if not already broken.
 
Just checked my Mom's 07 Buick LaCross has the same end links. Think when I do her brakes in two weeks I will replace her end links while I am at it. If hers are not broken yet I bet they will be soon. Since it is bit of a drive I do not want her to have them break when I can not fix them.
 
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