When hitting bumps in the road I feel and hear a bunch of clunking around in the front of the car. I've changed the lower ball joints and the hub assemblies with no luck. Before I changed anything out. I jackedit up and was able to wiggle the tire left and right, up and down, and at any angle. Which led me to believe the hubs were gone. But that didn't fix it, so I did the lower ball joints since a shop told me they were bad. And still no luck there. The steering is nice and tight, the rack and pinion steering was replaced at about 78k miles and I'm at 103k miles now. The control arm bushings look good and the only other thing I can think to change is the upper ball joints. But I can't find just the ball joint, it's the whole upper control arm. The roads here in walla walla Washington are pretty crappy and it drives me crazy just goin to the store. Thank for you help!!

 

Change the 2 hold down clamps to frame rubber bushings for the front sway bar.

 

Forgot to mention that the sway bar links were changed by Firestone when I first had it looked at.

 

The sway bar end links are not the problem, it's the sway bar to frame bushings that are.

 

Oh I see what your talking about. I will check it for sure thanks.

 

ok, ive called all the parts stores and none of them carry them. is this only a dealer part? ive seen them on some parts websites but i dont want to get the wrong ones. anybody got a part number?

 

Yes it's a dealer only or an online part, local auto parts stores do not carry them.

 

Well finally got them bushings in. No luck still banging and clunking around. The only thing I haven't changed is the upper balljoints???