wolverinexj
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- michigan
Hello:
I just completed installing Rusty's 3" kit w/ full leaf packs on my 2000 Cherokee, which has about 63k miles on it. I'm hearing a kind of clunking noise from the front coil springs when, for example, I back out of my driveway and turn, making one side compress. I have checked, and everything appears tight - shocks, coils are clamped down good and tight, tie rods, trac bar, control arms, etc. I'm thinking that maybe this is just due to the fact that I have crammed 3" more of a stiffer spring in an area designed for the stock spring w/out putting on new control arms, and that what I'm hearing is just the stiff new spring "complaining" as it is compressed. The XJ has never been wheeled before. I bought it at about 35k and have taken good care of it, so I don't think it's the ball joints going bad. Another thing that makes me think it isn't the ball joint is that it never made this sound until immedilately after adding the lift.
I installed this kit to do some moderate offroading, but now I'm driving it "gentler" than before, worried that something is about to break.
Any thoughts?
I just completed installing Rusty's 3" kit w/ full leaf packs on my 2000 Cherokee, which has about 63k miles on it. I'm hearing a kind of clunking noise from the front coil springs when, for example, I back out of my driveway and turn, making one side compress. I have checked, and everything appears tight - shocks, coils are clamped down good and tight, tie rods, trac bar, control arms, etc. I'm thinking that maybe this is just due to the fact that I have crammed 3" more of a stiffer spring in an area designed for the stock spring w/out putting on new control arms, and that what I'm hearing is just the stiff new spring "complaining" as it is compressed. The XJ has never been wheeled before. I bought it at about 35k and have taken good care of it, so I don't think it's the ball joints going bad. Another thing that makes me think it isn't the ball joint is that it never made this sound until immedilately after adding the lift.
I installed this kit to do some moderate offroading, but now I'm driving it "gentler" than before, worried that something is about to break.
Any thoughts?