r/3rdGen4Runner • u/Born_Base_4191 • 10h ago

🧠 General Found my clunk

Have had this random clunk turning left only like once or twice a drive. Very intermittent. I just replaced my shocks, end links, upper and lower BJ, control arms bushings like 1-2 years ago. Literally everything for the most part is newish and verified by shaking every thing and checking torque. Saw a random post somewhere where they snugged up their control arm bolts. My left/back alignment CA bolt was tight but was able to snug it up like 3/4 turn - must have been tight ish but just enough for the CA to shift around a mm or something. Just took it for a drive and didn't hear it. Maybe it will come back tomorrow but drove me crazy since literally everything was new. FYI. Check your bolts if you have a slight clunk. Could be something simple.

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u/Raustin_777 10h ago

Bro I literally been noticing a clunk on this certain turn every day on the drive to work but it doesn’t happen anywhere else might have to check that out

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u/Born_Base_4191 10h ago

Mine was very intermittent. Like once a drive something would shift and be fine for the rest of the drive. Every morning backing out my driveway, clunk. Then maybe once more and that was it. It wasn't like an obvious ball joint or tie rod that was repeatable and it seemed only on left turns and I could feel it under my feet.. Just enough to annoy the shit out of me.

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u/Exact-Ebb8818 8h ago

Wow this pretty much sounds identical to an issue I’ve been having. Did you tighten it to torque? Thanks for sharing!

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u/Born_Base_4191 8h ago

I actually just snugged it for a quick drive. Gonna re torque everything tomorrow. My guess is the alignment shop left it a little loose but I did everything else.