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Re: clunking when steering left or right at extremes LIBERTY

Postby jacks-GTB » Sat Jun 29, 2019 2:36 pm

Yeah my money is on un-balanced tyres...
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Re: clunking when steering left or right at extremes LIBERTY

Postby kaycy » Mon Jul 08, 2019 2:26 am

Hi,

I have been having the same clunking and car hopping when turning the steering wheel especially after driving the car for 1 hour or over. Now, I had the drive shaft replaced on the left side and the sway bar end link and the handling improved massively but the clunking remains.

On Saturday I was in Ballina and I had the car checked out at tyrepower and they reckon that the steering wheel locking nut is loose and the left side brake calliper. The car is going for a service at Subaru and I will see if fixing those two issues fix the problem.
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Re: clunking when steering left or right at extremes LIBERTY

Postby BillyCorgi » Mon Jul 08, 2019 5:36 pm

kaycy wrote:Hi,

I have been having the same clunking and car hopping when turning the steering wheel especially after driving the car for 1 hour or over. Now, I had the drive shaft replaced on the left side and the sway bar end link and the handling improved massively but the clunking remains.

On Saturday I was in Ballina and I had the car checked out at tyrepower and they reckon that the steering wheel locking nut is loose and the left side brake calliper. The car is going for a service at Subaru and I will see if fixing those two issues fix the problem.


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Hi, This is Peter from CorgiWerx.

The classic Centre Differential Viscous Coupling failures is a distinct BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG through the drive line (and yes, felt up through the seering wheel) when on tight turn at full lock.
It will be there when the car is hot, only to disappear when cold and only to reappaear again once more when hot.

BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG - Hot YES - Cold NO - Hot YES (again) are the classic symptoms.

As bigBADbenny says, contact me when you are ready to seek a repalcement rebuilt centre diff.

You have the classic symptoms of a centre diff failure
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Re: clunking when steering left or right at extremes LIBERTY

Postby RX25SE » Mon Jul 08, 2019 9:31 pm

kaycy wrote:Hi,

I have been having the same clunking and car hopping when turning the steering wheel especially after driving the car for 1 hour or over. Now, I had the drive shaft replaced on the left side and the sway bar end link and the handling improved massively but the clunking remains.

On Saturday I was in Ballina and I had the car checked out at tyrepower and they reckon that the steering wheel locking nut is loose and the left side brake calliper. The car is going for a service at Subaru and I will see if fixing those two issues fix the problem.


As above - center diff shagged
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Re: clunking when steering left or right at extremes LIBERTY

Postby kaycy » Fri Jul 12, 2019 1:13 am

BillyCorgi wrote:
kaycy wrote:Hi,

I have been having the same clunking and car hopping when turning the steering wheel especially after driving the car for 1 hour or over. Now, I had the drive shaft replaced on the left side and the sway bar end link and the handling improved massively but the clunking remains.

On Saturday I was in Ballina and I had the car checked out at tyrepower and they reckon that the steering wheel locking nut is loose and the left side brake calliper. The car is going for a service at Subaru and I will see if fixing those two issues fix the problem.


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Hi, This is Peter from CorgiWerx.

The classic Centre Differential Viscous Coupling failures is a distinct BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG through the drive line (and yes, felt up through the seering wheel) when on tight turn at full lock.
It will be there when the car is hot, only to disappear when cold and only to reappaear again once more when hot.

BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG - Hot YES - Cold NO - Hot YES (again) are the classic symptoms.

As bigBADbenny says, contact me when you are ready to seek a repalcement rebuilt centre diff.

You have the classic symptoms of a centre diff failure



Ok, thanks.
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Re: clunking when steering left or right at extremes LIBERTY

Postby kaycy » Sun Mar 08, 2020 10:55 pm

I got a new centre diff thinking the old one would be way too worn out and I couldn’t be without the car for more than two days. The locking and bouncing symptoms have stopped completely.

It is amazing how the old one still looks good from outside.

BillyCorgi, may be you should do a swap so that we can keep the cars on the road.
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