Another Front End Clunk/Pop thread

[Mo's TE]

The hunt continues

I adjusted the stops and greased them until it was difficult to close the hood. This did not work me, the metal on metal clunk is still there.

 

[honda250xtitan]

Clunk is gone. It was the hood.

Just to recap:

- adjusted hood stops and greased them with silicone grease
- I had adjusted them before but without the grease (I feel like that made a difference)

- no clue why my front bilstein shock on that corner has a bushing that’s almost completely failed. Pretty much just highway driving and only 6k miles. Going to contact blistein about this to see what my options are. For now, I am back to stock front shocks.

Thanks for all the input everyone. This was driving me crazy

don't torque the bottom bolt until the weight of the truck is on the tires. otherwise the bushing will preload/bind and it will tear. this is true of almost all OEM style bushings found in LCA's, UCA's, and the lower shock mounts.

 

[DiscoCam]

don't torque the bottom bolt until the weight of the truck is on the tires. otherwise the bushing will preload/bind and it will tear. this is true of almost all OEM style bushings found in LCA's, UCA's, and the lower shock mounts.

Yes this is true. I did this for the bilsteins and the OEM shocks I just put back in

 

[DiscoCam]

[MENTION=136270]Mo's TE[/MENTION] That's a bummer. But I don't think I had a metal/metal noise. Definitely more like a clunky bushing.

 

[DiscoCam]

Just wanted to update this thread, I ended up getting another set of 5100s for the front and installed them yesterday. Same factory springs, same 0.85" ride height setting. Everything torqued with all tires on the ground.
Truck just rolled 30k last week so I'm hoping this will last longer than the first set. Forgot how much of a difference the 5100s make over the factory shocks; drives so differently.

Edit: Got it aligned this morning and all is good. Definitely needs an alignment afterwards so make sure you do that. Camber was out of spec.