Small clunk on acceleration
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Launching!
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From: Southwestern Ontario, Canada
Small clunk on acceleration The best way to describe it is exactly like a bad U-joint sounds on a rear drive.
Is there some sort of shaft or joints up front that get loose or develop play?
I'm not familiar with FWD
Is there some sort of shaft or joints up front that get loose or develop play?
I'm not familiar with FWD
On The Tree
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From: Georgia
Not to scare BUT my imp started clunking when first starting off (forward only) and slowly got worse, kinda like it wasnt in gear good but would clunk and then go. Bad torque converter for the second time, I'm on #3 transaxle. These transaxles I think are underrated for the engine hp. Hope thats not whats wrong with yours, like spawne32 said, that other stuff is usually pronounced in turns.....
Launching!
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From: Toronto, Canada
Hopefully its something similar to mine , have a clunk under acceleration but also under breaking as well. Of course when i took it in the sound couldn't be duplicated. I haven't had much time to investigate but i believe its suspension related. Struts ? No noise when popped in neutral and reving. Have a tep rebuild so im eliminating that ( hopefully )lol.
Keep us posted.
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Launching!
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From: Southwestern Ontario, Canada
Sh*t motor mounts don't sound like an easy fix.... it is definitly more pronounced while going straight and setting off, even slowly. Sometimes I get a similar noise on the turns but not always.
Would the motor mounts not make the same noise when simply revving in neutral?
Would the motor mounts not make the same noise when simply revving in neutral?
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Launching!
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Teching In
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From: Under Lake Michigan
What brand is a good one to get?
I have little time to research this and usually just buy from Rockauto or local parts stores. What is a decent mount that isn't a solid full race mount or whatever. My car is a stocker and I probably won't do much to it but a nice firm mount would be good enough for me. I want something that is going to last and not fail in the near future like the Rockauto or parts store cheapie replacement parts.
Thanks.
Mike
p.s. Are there only three mounts? I'm not 100% sure if it's 3 or 4.
There's a lower front mount, a lower rear mount, and then the upper mount. The transmission shares the lower rear mount with the engine and then has a separate mount as well. As far as after markets go you can get poly all the way around. A member on here was getting the lowers custom made so you'd have to find that post. And as for the upper mount and the transmission mount the ones on ZZP and stuff work for our cars.
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Launching!
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From: Southwestern Ontario, Canada
Ya the upper looks easy. How would I go about doing the lower mounts? Or where are they located? Will be under there changing my oil soon so was going to wait till then before I check it out.
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u two get togetther and buya set rom zzp-upper polished or regular but u get poly bushing,that will make u want to go all poly,so u might as well start the process, i got 1" shorter on top but some of guys on here dont like them or u wont need it to be sorter if u do all new mounts,but i like it and if u going all out check out x11 nut on this site hope this helps