Man, what a difference a rubber makes!

A rubber bushing that is. Finally tracked down the noise from the rear suspension to the lower shock mounts. for some reason, my XJ doesnt like poly bushings, and aactually likes to eat them up.

Put in the rubber bushing from a stock shock today, and the noise is gone. no more loud clunk going over bumps or dips. Also replaced the RRO BPEs with the stock BPE.

I did this because the shocks were bottoming out with only a little flex. i have raised shock mounts, and with the BPEs, had to mcuh droop and not enough compression room. BTW, these are the standard OME shocks.

Thanks to those that helped me troubleshoot this.

Fergie

You still should look at your mounts and angle of the shocks!If you have altered the alignment by your springs/shims they will tend to eat "any" bushings,rubber just lasts longer!
http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?p=206025#post206025 post#4

Hmmm...that could be a possibility. I have an SYE and CV DS in the budget, so I may get rid of the shims and go with the DS. Hadn't thought of that.

Fergie

It will only get worse w/ a SYE!