88lance
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Hello everyone, my '02 Z71 Tahoe has developed a random clunking noise that can be felt slightly in the steering wheel, only when turning or cornering to the left.
First thought was inner or outer tie rods.
But when I had my alignment done last year he said all of that looked good (although that was 10,000 miles ago).
The Tahoe was in the shop for a new AC compressor last week, and they checked into the clunk, and said "it's your front sway bar bushings, they are bad".
So this evening I got under and checked things out. So the sway bar bushings and link bushings don't seem compressed really, but the bars are also not loose.
I noticed the inner to rods are very greasy on both sides, so I jacked up the front and tried move the tires by hand, but there doesn't seem to be any play in either side.
So now I'm kind of torn between whether it actually could be the sway bar links, even though they don't feel loose, but since the bushings don't seem compressed, or whether it is actually the inner tie rods even though they don't seem to have play, just because it makes sense that it does it cornering in one direction.
Would be great to hear some thoughts on this instead of just throwing random parts at it.
Thanks!
First thought was inner or outer tie rods.
But when I had my alignment done last year he said all of that looked good (although that was 10,000 miles ago).
The Tahoe was in the shop for a new AC compressor last week, and they checked into the clunk, and said "it's your front sway bar bushings, they are bad".
So this evening I got under and checked things out. So the sway bar bushings and link bushings don't seem compressed really, but the bars are also not loose.
I noticed the inner to rods are very greasy on both sides, so I jacked up the front and tried move the tires by hand, but there doesn't seem to be any play in either side.
So now I'm kind of torn between whether it actually could be the sway bar links, even though they don't feel loose, but since the bushings don't seem compressed, or whether it is actually the inner tie rods even though they don't seem to have play, just because it makes sense that it does it cornering in one direction.
Would be great to hear some thoughts on this instead of just throwing random parts at it.
Thanks!