Front End clunking/vibration

So a day before I got my Relentless skids I started to get a weird noise up front when taking off from a stop sign. Since I've put the skids on its only gotten worse. I've checked the steering, sway bar, and the cv axles. My drivers side cv axle is a little bit more loose than my passenger side one. I've read a bunch of threads and can't figure it out. Any ideas??

 

I have a clunk too. My driver side upper control arm rear facing bushing is bad. When I come to a hard stop or turn to the right hard, I hear a clunk. Took me a while to figure out. I tightend and re tightend all the bolts n nuts all over the front end. Then one day I thought to put the front end on jack stands and see if I could get any movement by shaking the wheels. Thats when I found the bushing was bad. The loop housing the bushing was contacting the bolt making the clunk noise. I also noticed that the bushing was seperating from the loop as well. Before that I had another clunk, and it turned out to be the strut rod nut wasn't tight enough. I did an OME lift on another guys truck, and he had a clunk after we lifted it. Turned out to be the sway bar contacting the bottom of the strut when the truck had a slight flex. He put a sway bar relocate from toy tec on and that fixed it. I suggest putting your truck on stands and shaking the front suspension to see where your clunk is coming from. Hope this helps.

 

I think you should just give up and let me take that heap of scrap off your hands

 

Thanks. Yeah on Wednesday when I get home I'm going to put it on a lift and check everything out. Hopefully it's something as simple as that.

 

Haha well hey if you want me to I can wash your truck

 

Sure-

 

As for the driver side cv, all of our trucks are like that. I replaced the needle bearing with a bushing and it took some of the up and down movement out, but the in and out is still the same.

 

We'll that's good to know.

 

Check your hub bearing assemblies. http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/at...-imageuploadedbytapatalk1337457926.179827.jpg

 

Damn that dosent look safe. I'll be sure to check that.

 

Yeah I was getting a popping then clunking noise. We thought it was a bad LCA bushing then maybe the wheel bearing was going. You can see where the bolts were getting worn from the wheel studs.

 

Yeah that's crazy. I hope mines an easy fix. I'm not to mechanically inclined.

 

So I've checked everything but the hub bearing assembly. But the noise is gone for now after I rotated my tires.....