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Old 07-28-2005, 11:03 PM
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Low speed front suspension clunk when braking/accelerating turning: shock absorbers?

Hi everybody
I have been taking care of my car's (1992 300TE 148kmiles) most problems, except this one:
At low speed, especially when the weather is hot and after some driving I can hear annoying clunks from the front end. It mainly happens when braking, accelerating and turning. In the last 15kmiles the car had new control arms, tie rods, drag links, idler arm bushing, shocks (Bilsteins), shock mounts, wheel bearings, tires - basically a whole new front end.
Last night I had the car jacked up. When I twisted the wheel and consequently the whole steering mechanism I heard the noise again. It is coming from the shock absorbers. When I loosened the mounting nut on top of the shock mounts the noise was gone. As I understand the shock absorbers turn internally to accommodate to different wheel positions. They don't smoothingly but respond with repeated clunks, as if something had to brake loose again and again to allow the shock to turn.
Are my shocks broken? Is this a common problem? I have not read of anything similar on the forum.
As always your sensible comments are very welcome, Bruno
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