Clunk in suspension?

I ordered front endlinks for my fx35 (Moog from Amazon). They were $13 each vs. $29.99 from O'Reilly (and they didn't have them within 2 days). After pulling off the wheels I re- checked the sound I heard from before. Even more obvious the end links were shot. No sound above the top mount point. Pass side nuts were on pretty tight (rust), but I used pb blaster, my crappy air ratchet to shake it up, and a breaker to loosen. Driver side...lower nut was on REALLY tight. I barely got it turned until the stopper 'set' and then had to use a small jack to get it started. It bent the stopper ear itstead of loosening the nut, so I turned it back and rebent. Then it popped off the keyed section and just spun when turning. Ugh. So, I pulled the upper nut, then popped the arm off the bottom (just pulled it off the joint). Then took a large vise grip, set it against the half shaft and FINALLY got the first real 'squeak' as it loosened the nut. Took another several 1/8 turns in an odd spot with a large breaker, but I did finally get it off.

Clunk completely gone. Solved. Woohoo! I'll post a picture of what I had to do when I have posting permissions.
 
synapticfx said:
After the car sits parked I get a clunk in the suspension as I'm pulling out of my space. I'm thinking it's a bushing. Anyone else experience this?
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First, it is my kind who gave the "thanks", can not keep his little hands off the ipad when I am using it :)

Try parking the car again for the same period but without engaging the manual brake this time, see if you still get this.


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Nice! I know it was a long and painful procedure to figure out my clunk and to remove (took me 2 years and several pages of reading off the org).
 
synapticfx said:
Seems like front. Only happens after vehicle is parked for a while. Something settles when it's parked then shifts and clunk when you first give it gas. After that no issues.
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I have that exact same issue. Its crazy how that little sound seems like a shotgun blast to your hear every morning.
 
Could be one (or both) of the inner CV joints going bad, the ones with the spider assembly.

I would get under the car and check the 4 boots (inner and outer CV's on the front axle) for cracks and loss of grease


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