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'Clunks' in rear of my '96 965 reduced AGAIN! 900

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posted by  jbowers on  Thu Apr 24 09:10 CST 2003
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Last night I took the snow wheels off and put the "fun" wheels back on at the risk of causing a late season snow storm here in the Northeast of the US.

While I had the car on the jack and the rear wheels off, I put my breaker bar with appropriate sockets on the bolts that attach the rear suspension brackets to the body. (I had cured some clunks doing this before.) To my amazement, several of the bolts turned up a little. I did this two years ago so I expected them to still be tight.

This morning on the way to work the car was noticable quieter! I had attributed the clunks, not too bad yet, to the rear hatch.

Seems like the bolts like to loosen up. Maybe next time I should take them out and put "Loctite" on them. (Start with new ones as these may be stretched?)

Any one else have experience here?
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'96 965 with 16' wheels at 101K. Had '85 745 Turbo Diesel for 200K.







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