FOUND IT! Post lift clunking and knocking.

I sure do. But I swear the clunk happens the moment I hit a bump with my front tire.

 

Damn! This thread has some mad folks in it. Best of luck to everyone solving their noises. I feel a bit lucky as my rig presently makes no unwanted noises.

To try and help, I will add this. On my truck, it used to make popping noise when going over speed bumps slowly at an angle, or creaking noise when opening my drivers door. It was a true mother-source of irritation and frustration. That problem as it turns out was laminated sheet metal moving in the body around the door sill / A-pillar. The solution to that problem was to spray penetrating oil into the pinch weld. Years later, I did it to the passenger side and no more noise on that side either.

I run the the extra spring on the brake pad, currently my pads are too new to know if it's going to make a difference. I changed out the OEM pads when they wore down to 4mm, just because I didn't like the noise when reversing direction.

I wouldn't bother. 99% of the Dakar spring noise is caused by the main spring vibrating against the second spring. The noise is caused at both the front and rear. I used zip ties to separate the leaves which proved highly effective. They eventually broke months later, I drove the springs apart and hit them with Dry Moly lube which has been working very well.

Not exactly. Some select black ES bushings have graphite as an added lubricant, red do not have this quality. Link

Best of luck to all.

 

My truck sounds pretty similar to this. This is not my truck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEKsN5npdvE

 

I think you'd need to grease these every year or so, and the stock LCA doesn't have provisions to screw in zerk fittings.

 

Do you have the part number to the springs that you used to add the secondary ones up top by chance?

I swear my clunking is brake related. After going through it up and down I have found no visual reason as to why else it would clunk. Everything is very tight.

 

I have ran into this issue before, the slip yolk in the steering shaft gets dry of grease and clunks. Grease it up with some thick grease, good to go. Just throwing it out there and hope it helps someone cure their clunk.

Typically felt at slow speeds, random clunks.

 

I swore up and down that my clunk was from the front and I think I had ONE up front, but the lower ball joint fixed that.

The one I have now sounds and feels like it's from the driver's side leaf pack. I checked out my front bushings and the driver's side is clearly off center. You can also see some contact areas in the "bucket" that the front of the leaf pack slides into. I have the poly bushings on order, gonna try to swap them in soon.

 

Mine is very intermittent. It's almost like something is bound up and then the right bump or amount of flex releases it. I drove 15 miles to work today without a sound. The on the way home I went though one intersection and sure enough it clunked on damn near every crack in the roadway.

 

Paying closer attention, mine happens when there is lateral force on the rear axle. Sometimes it's when I hit a bump in the road with one rear wheel only. It definitely happens going over a speed bump one rear wheel at a time.

When I turn up/down a sloped driveway it sometimes happens, and I think it depends on which way I entered the driveway, and therefore which side of the bushing the leaf pack shifted to. Since it can then only go in the opposite direction.

I also thought it was the front because it'd pop right when I started a turn, but with the stiffer suspension, it angles the truck over the rear, outer wheel instead of eating the bump in the front shocks.

 

Check your u bolts and center pins to make sure they are all tightened down. If they are, suspect axle wrap. Are you still running stock 3 leaf/ 4 leaf packs?

 

U-Bolts are at 100ft-lbs now. Smooth take-off, so I don't suspect axle wrap. Also, no clunking during take-off. I have OME Dakar full packs...nothing removed.

 

Shot bushings by chance? There is nothing back there other than the shackle and the bushings that could be clunking. Unless your shock's are somehow contacting the frame during bumps.

 

Yup. Leaf spring front bushings are exactly what I'm suspecting. Rears look good. I order some ES poly leaf spring bushings, hopefully pressing out the old ones won't be too bad. They're still relatively new and haven't seen snow/salt.

 

Did it start after your camburg UCA's? I get the same thing, seems more prominent on the drivers side though..

 

You are going to have to do that and let us know how it fares out. I have to install secondary caliper retention clips on my calipers and see if that will hold onto everything in there a little better to keep them from clacking. My noise sounds more like clacking then clunking.

 

Happened about 2 months after it all was installed

 

Mine's definitely a clunk. Hopefully yours is brake pad slap. I will for sure update if the bushings were my problem. I also suspect them because ARB says to tack weld them because they might move.

 

FYI the leaf spring bushings I got were Energy Suspension part #

$69 8.2116G LEAF SPRING BSHING SET - REAR

8.2116G just so it's documented.

 

@jtweezy Do you have any pictures, how did you determine this may be the problem..? Sorry, dint fully ready everything.

 

That's exactly what I got. check these videos out. Hmm also 5100's and eibach springs?
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/help-with-front-suspension-noise-videos.420430/