SWB Clunking Sound

[swbpatrol]

Gooda
I have recently noticed a clunking sound coming from underneath drivers feet in my SWB Maverick. My first guess was Radius arm Bushes and investigation found they were split and knackered. I am about to replace them. After a decent rain i took my car for a spin on the tarmac and noticed it gets worse when the car is wet. I am know thinking it might not be the radius arm bushes and possible something else i thought it would be less noticable when wet?? It happens when taking off from a stand still and when the wheel articulates any ideas??? Are these prone to body mount cracking or something? Any help would be good

Chris

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Gooda
I have recently noticed a clunking sound coming from underneath drivers feet in my SWB Maverick. My first guess was Radius arm Bushes and investigation found they were split and knackered. I am about to replace them. After a decent rain i took my car for a spin on the tarmac and noticed it gets worse when the car is wet. I am know thinking it might not be the radius arm bushes and possible something else i thought it would be less noticable when wet?? It happens when taking off from a stand still and when the wheel articulates any ideas??? Are these prone to body mount cracking or something? Any help would be good

Chris

Your body mount rubbers are worn out. YOu can try tightening the bolts, sometimes gets you a few more mths.

The body is moving on them, its common, and the rubbers are around $400-500 a set for LWB.. Probably $350-400 for shorty. Just bought mine the other day.

The other thing is the floor pan cracks where the firewall and the floor meets.

[swbpatrol]

thanks i will check the bodyrubbers tonight and hopefully the floor pan is not cracked. To replace the body rubbers its as simple as lifting the body and changing each one isn't it? Also could anyone recommend good Rubber bushes for the radius arm??

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thanks i will check the bodyrubbers tonight and hopefully the floor pan is not cracked. To replace the body rubbers its as simple as lifting the body and changing each one isn't it? Also could anyone recommend good Rubber bushes for the radius arm??

check the bodylift how to on www.gqpatrol.com

theres a bit in it actually, removing interior parts and things...

[marin]

i have the same clunking when it is wet, on mine it is from the radius arm bushes, as you said, of which 1 is split and the others are cracked

[rOd]

Ah huh!
I happen to have the same noise coming from what I believe is under the driver side.
How much do these radius bushes cost?

rod

[Area54]

Ah huh!
I happen to have the same noise coming from what I believe is under the driver side.
How much do these radius bushes cost?

rod

I recently paid 44 bucks each genuine from nissan.

[swbpatrol]

S#it just got off the phone from nissan they want $690 for a bush kit for the radius arms so it looks like i'll be getting aftermarket firmer ones. How much do the aftermarket ones go for? and do any aftermarket places make the rubber ones?

[Area54]

If you can hold out for a short while, there may be slotted bushes available for the Nissan front end, PM strange rover or ruff for some info on these.

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If you can hold out for a short while, there may be slotted bushes available for the Nissan front end, PM strange rover or ruff for some info on these.

yea theres a thread in the rover forum, I asked Sam a while ago about them, they give a Massive improvement in everything!

[bazzle]

Clunk also comes from a worn hole where body mount bolt goes thru floor. Tighten.
Nylon lift blocks make this wear quicker, steel/ally ones less so.
Also floor opens at join from firewall to floor pan. This knocks a little bit too. Reseal and put small roofing bolts thru.

Use geniune nissan radius arm bushes at rear end of front radius arms.
Use OME (ARB) bushes under diff.

Bazzle

[John H]

I had a similar sound in my LWB GQ a few years ago. I went through all of the obvious things - body mounts, radius arm bushes etc. In the end it turned out to be the thin pannels in the footwell. They would make a 'cracking' noise when the body work flexed — took me one year of looking for it to work this out. If you lie on the ground, place your feet against the underside of the footwell and push up you may be able to get it to make the noise. You can also get noises from where the floor pannels are welded together.
You never know, this could be it.