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Clunckig leaf springs

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Clunckig leaf springs

Post by Hoppy11 »

Just wondering What you guy's with leaf springs do when they start cluncking, the leafs have done about 2500 k's now and after a bit of flexing the other day they have started a bit of a clunk up and down kurbs, someone told me just to oil them with a bit of old sump oil and diesel, and a guy who works at Toyota says they "pack" the end of each leaf with a peice of plastis cut from old oil containers to stop the metal on metal clunking, just need some adive on what other people do, besides changing them to coils bogged!!. ha ha.
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Post by OzBinder »

Put up with it ( how cares really ) :lol:

most newer springs have small teflon bits at the ends of each leaf were they touch. I think its teflon anyone :?:
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Post by Hoppy11 »

Bourban can really mess up your spelling eh
sorry bout that
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Post by Bad JuJu »

Make sure you haven't broken a leaf somewhere in the pack, thats the only time I heard a clunking type sound, mostly they just make squeak and scrape type sounds
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Post by chunderlicious »

if you have extended shackles (superior style straight ones) they actually hit on the body mount. if you drive a hilux
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Post by mistaboz »

Had clunking in the zook before.
Took me a while to figure out what it was.
Ended up being that the u bolts that hold the leaf pack onto the axle housing were loose. Tightened the nuts up and the clunking went away.

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Post by Hoppy11 »

mistaboz wrote:Had clunking in the zook before.
\Ended up being that the u bolts that hold the leaf pack onto the axle housing were loose. Tightened the nuts up and the clunking went away.

Cheers PAUL..
Checked that and every other bolt and nut, but it is the coming from the leaves.
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Post by just cruizin' »

Do you still have the clamps on the springs or have you cut them off. I have cut mine as a sort of guide for the springs and now my clunck a bit, but I'm used to that now.
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Post by known 2 »

i have a clunking sound in the back of my 75 and i've bin told it's the tailshaft pushing to hard up against the rear diff wich is cousing everything to bind up and clunk when i go around corners or take off.
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