Sorry, I don't have any advice, but the retorquing the bushing bolts sounds like a good idea. I have a funny story, though.

I rebuilt the rear suspension on my 245, with lowering springs and all, and then I started getting this funny "sproing" noise sometimes. It seemed to happen when I would change directions, like going into reverse, and then going into 1st. It didn't happen all the time. I thought, "oh no, I'm going to have to go under the car and do something over again." And then I noticed that the antenna mast was at the right height to hit the tire from a bicycle hanging from the garage ceiling! There's the sproing!

Greg

Zee -- I did the same thing to my '87 244 around Xmastime -- the back end had been squatting down, so I replaced the replacement r.t.a. bushings and the torque rod bushings, and put on new shocks. So every fastener on the rear end (except the Panhard rod's) was off and on.

One thing that comes to my mind is that if you just replaced the springs, now that the car sits up higher by an inch or so with the wagon springs, the trailing arm bushings and torque rod bushings are in a new 'rest postion' but have been torqued for the old rest position. I wonder if the noise would disappear if you backed your car onto ramps (to keep the rear end weight-loaded) and you loosened up the bushings bolts and retorqued them.

Just a thought...

Rob

No kidding. I suppose that if you sprayed eveything that moves, maybe one at a time with silicone, you could eliminate the culprits one at a time. It might be possible that something real slight, like the difference between the rubber mounts in the shocks was enough to do it.