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Okay.....the ends of the shock mount to the body at one end and the suspension at the other.....the 'bump stop' is fitted around the shock piston shaft and has no bearing on the noise.
Unless the sway bar link/mount is worn....the noise will emminate from the shock assembly.
With normal body weight on the suspension, the spring will/should never unload from it's seats......this leaves us with the top and bottom mounts....one to the
body the other to the suspension.
If the rubber bushing at one end.....and it is usually the body mount..... wheel motion against the shock damping directly acts on the mounts...in this case, the rubber isolating bushes.....where it mounts to the body there is usually a rubber bush on each side of the mount or body panel....if this assembly is not under sufficent compression, as the mount works it will make a thud or thump.
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