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Old 04-02-2007, 09:22 PM
psfred psfred is offline
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You are sneaking up on the age where you need new thrust and torque links in the rear end. The rubber goes bad, allowing the rear end to sag some, and they thump under the rear seat badly, as that is end that moves.

You will also have some torque steer when these are bad -- rear end will want to move sideways one way under acceleration and the other on trailing throttle or braking.

Much cheaper than struts.

Peter
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