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by kuroneko » Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:22 am
Hi MX5 gurus and wonderful people.
I have a clunk-clunk-clunk noise when I'm in gear and turn a corner. It's more noticeable while cold. I jacked up the rear and put it in gear, and turned the wheel by hand forwards and backwards to see how much play there was (to be honest, I don't know how much is 'acceptable')
I'm assuming it's either my outer cv joints, or something funky is happening with my diff. I do have the car lowered on BC's, so I'm leaning towards CV's.
The car is a 89 NA6 with an open diff.
Also, if it is the CV joints, I saw this on trademe:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =513856553
I asked him a question (the only question there...) and he asked me about the spline count. Anyone know how many splines on our crappy open diffs?
Thank you for the help as always
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by PLSEME » Wed Sep 19, 2012 7:19 am
Yea had a similar problem with my car, knock when pulling away from intersections, when changing gears, & some times when getting on & off the throttle in the higher gears, even got it at a track day loading up in a corner.
So first i got the CV's checked, then i changed the sway bar links, then i rebuilt the rear callipers, checked the rear hubs for a second time, put in full energy suspension bush kit, got a second opinion on the CV's, rechecked the shims on the pads in the rear.................
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by halberd » Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:19 am
What was wrong with the top hats? I don't know much about them but I do know my car makes a 'wubwubwub' sound when I throw her into a corner turning left. Maybe I should check mine out, but I don't know what I'm looking for in particular.
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by warrior » Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:14 pm
I have some you can borrow if you want to try them out
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by Kieran » Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:14 pm
halberd wrote:What was wrong with the top hats? I don't know much about them but I do know my car makes a 'wubwubwub' sound when I throw her into a corner turning left. Maybe I should check mine out, but I don't know what I'm looking for in particular.
I think the wubwubwub noise is more likely the wheel bearing isn't it
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by chris » Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:19 pm
Did someone mention Dubstep? O.o
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by WideOpenThrottle » Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:02 pm
Interesting about the rear top hats as i get it too when pushing hard around Puke race track & a bit on the road now as well.
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by Angreal » Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:35 pm
how do you fix them? Bolt them down tighter? Replace?
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by SLYDIT » Wed Sep 19, 2012 7:24 pm
flyin miata short top hats.
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by kuroneko » Wed Sep 19, 2012 8:46 pm
My BC's are near new (less than 5000kms). I would've thought the top hats would be alright?
lol @ wubwubwub
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by WideOpenThrottle » Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:12 pm
Well it seems my rear clunking could be the exhaust hitting the mounting turret for where the drivers side tow hook was bolted to.
Decided to give it a small shake & made the noise straight away.
Put some rubber dampening on & will confirm once i get it drivable.
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by sprsta » Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:28 pm
kuroneko wrote:My BC's are near new (less than 5000kms). I would've thought the top hats would be alright?
lol @ wubwubwub
come by the workshop after work one day ill have a look if you like
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by kuroneko » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:43 pm
sprsta wrote:
come by the workshop after work one day ill have a look if you like
Sounds good, I'll pop round once uni settles down. Thanks
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