Did you disturbe the front stabilizers bars??

I once had my sons out during some front end work and failed to re-tighten them fully and they acted the same way during the test drive.

Banged like hell when breaking or accelerating.

By Jonathan (68.193.6.173) on Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 06:45 pm:

Yeah, it's fixed. It wasn't on my Honda, it was on my Chevelle. I had one shop rebuild the suspension a few years back, and apparently one of the original bolts got reused. I don't think I'll take any of my cars to a shop again to do any work that I can't do myself. I know it's not the same design for a front suspension, but I figured I'd throw the idea out there. A shifting LCA is a shifting LCA, no matter what type of suspension you have.

I'm planning on replacing most all the bolts in the front suspension when the weather warms up a little more, and I get around to doing the wagon brake swap, and putting on a set of lowering springs too.

By John S. (68.92.247.134) on Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 06:36 pm:

Jonathan, have you fixed that yet? Usually it is a combination of a bad bushing where the rubber has sheared itself from the outer part of the bushing housing, and at the same time the bolt is Rustified itself to the inner sleeve on the bushing itself...Three hour tour...
2nd Gens are REALLY bad about that one.
I think it is because the inner lower control arm bushing is put under an extreme amount of stress just being bolted together. Probably some kind of pre-engineered preload, and I'm sure Honda had its reason for doing it that way, but it causes the 2nd Gen Civics to eat those bushings.
Never really found it to be the same amount of a problem on the 1stGen cars, but they don't have near as much preload stress on them, still years of salt...

By Jonathan (68.193.6.173) on Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 05:48 pm:

I had a similar sound when turning, turned out to be a lower control arm bolt that started rusting out, allowing the LCA to shift slightly.

Could be a number of things though, from exhaust to motor mounts to something loose rolling around on the floor of the car.

By -Andrew Smit- (Cvcc_Wagon) (24.86.60.160) on Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 03:15 pm:

i had a similar noise on my pasenger side.it was the controll arm bushing

By Jarcaf (Jarcaf) (207.55.238.216) on Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 02:41 pm:

Ok, this started when I put in my new struts and B&G lowering springs...Under really heavy braking, something in the front suspension clunks very loudly. When I accelerate again it makes the same noise, like it's bouncing back to its original position. The clunk under acceleration only occurs after a clunk after heavy braking. My assumption is that something is loose, but the springs seem to be tight in their perches and a quick check with a pry bar didn't show any loose points. Anyone got some ideas?