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Rick
Dodge Dakota
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11/13/2008
23:05:44
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 Subject: Name that clunk!
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Hi folks. 99 Dakota ext cab 4x4 318.
I have a clunk that comes from my front right end when I go into left-hand turns too fast. It comes especially easily when it's raining outside.
I don't think it's the ball joints because twice I've jacked the truck up, grabbed that wheel at top and bottom, and tried to wiggle it but it doesn't move. There is a little play when I grab it left and right, but I don't know how much play the steering is supposed to have regularly.
I did replace the inner tie rods and the idler arm. I've also replaced the outer bushings on the front sway bar. Yet the clunk is still there.
At this point I'm wondering if it's a body mount that's shifting under load, or some other component of the steering.
Suggestions?
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other bill
Dodge Dakota
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11/17/2008
11:38:55
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Had this same problem on my `95. Turned out to be the shock moving on the lower bolt. The bolt was tight in the lower control arm, but not in as far as it needed to be. I had to remove it, clean up the threads on the bolt AND the lower control arm...then repeatedly run it in and out until it threaded in all the way.
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