Brakes are "clunking"

Knightspirit

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SWEET! Okay, so give us the details! Which parts did you change out? Just the radius arms or ..? :cool:
I had previously replaced pretty much every bushing - including everything in the rear, as well as replacing ball joints and the pan hard bar and it's bushings - but I either forgot to do the radius arms or they failed a few years after I installed them. I think I just didn't do it because I would have remembered the process for getting the arms to go back on! So in this case I just replaced the two front and two rear bushings on each radius arm. Mine were completely blown. Had to press the old ones out - but the new ones were poly bushes so they didn't need pressing. Made a huge difference!
 
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DiscoClay

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I had previously replaced pretty much every bushing - including everything in the rear, as well as replacing ball joints and the pan hard bar and it's bushings - but I either forgot to do the radius arms or they failed a few years after I installed them. I think I just didn't do it because I would have remembered the process for getting the arms to go back on! So in this case I just replaced the two front and two rear bushings on each radius arm. Mine were completely blown. Had to press the old ones out - but the new ones were poly bushes so they didn't need pressing. Made a huge difference!
Did you replace the center a-arm bushings and ball joint as well? That one is a pain, at least it was for me.

Now I have something clunking in the right rear during initial movement.. It could be one of the rear exhaust hangers having failed (hopefully ;-)

Can you snap a couple pics of the finished job?