Control arm bush

[cheshired5]

Originally Posted by Pauljude

do you think the knocking sound it is making is normal or no?

Not normal and if you can make that noise with just the strength of your hand, you can understand how the weight of the car can do it too.
You'll see when you feel the movement of a new balljoint and I suspect my 200k+ mile originals are beginning to do the same given I occasionally have the same noise and I've replaced every other likely component.

[Pauljude]

Originally Posted by cheshired5

Not normal and if you can make that noise with just the strength of your hand, you can understand how the weight of the car can do it too.
You'll see when you feel the movement of a new balljoint and I suspect my 200k+ mile originals are beginning to do the same given I occasionally have the same noise and I've replaced every other likely component.

Thank you so much for your help. 160k here and I can tell you the control arms were a wrestling match to get off.

[cheshired5]

Originally Posted by Pauljude

the control arms were a wrestling match to get off.

Oh right....
In my video here, I undid all of the control arm fittings and they just fell off.