clunk going over bumps on drivers side front

freshley

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I've recently noticed a clunk coming from the drivers side front end when going over bumps. I'm going to try this weekend to find a bump that will let me repeat it as up until now it doesn't happen all the time.
I just replaced the lower ball joints and both inner and outer tie rod ends along with bilstien 5100 Tundra shocks and poly sway bar bushings. The only thing left is the upper ball joints which I didn't replace as everyone says they don't go bad since they don't see the stress that the lowers do. I did notice that the control arms on that side did not move as easily as the other side making it hard to get the shocks in. Could it be the control arm bushings binding up?
 
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hmmm.. i was going to immediately say sway bar as that is well known for the clunk.. and mine does it all the time. You can TRY the steering rack guide as ive had that make a weird noise when it went bad. I would still double check the sway bar bushings and the links, when the link goes bad you get a odd clank from it under certain circumstanes.. you can try swapping the right for left and see what happens
 
One of my clunks was the lower control arm bushings but it wasn't binding in my case. Another clunk was a sway bar bushing.
 
I just replaced all of my sway bar bushings including the end link bushings. At first I thought I didn't put the nut on the end link tight enough as the torque spec on that is next to nothing so when I did everything this last weekend, I tightened them down pretty far to the point where the top bushing was being squeezed. That's what I thought it was too as it seemed to start after I replaced the bushings but after I had everything apart and the control arms weren't really moving I was thinking it might be something with those.
 

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