Hello everyone! I am new to this site and I am hoping someone out there can help me!!! I have a 03 TL base model. Took it into the shop with a weird clunk noise front passenger side suspension. Noticed it had a blown strut on the passenger side (strut oil EVERYWHERE) and the front passenger sway bar end link had some play. Well already wanted to lower the TL I went ahead and purchased some TruHart struts and springs (just the entry level stuff) for the front and rear. I used my old strut mount and bushings due to everything looking fine and not dry rotted or cracked. Assembled everything and changed out BOTH front sway bar end links. Have triple checked all the bolts and everything is nice a tight. Well there is still a clunking noise in the front, now coming from both sides. The noise is more dominant and noticeable at low speeds. I did some reading and noticed people saying it could be radius rod bushings, so I changed them out this evening, and the noise is still present. I have shook and shook and shook the front end, everything is sooooo tight. Done this under pressure, no pressure. Checked practically everything I can think of and the three ASE mechanics that have looked at it. This has us baffled and it is getting more annoying as the days go by. There is two things that I am thinking it could be, either the springs are just too compressed ( car too low, which I doubt cause I've had way lower and never this noise ) Front was a 2.5 drop and rear 2.25 drop. Or the other thing would be since I did not buy new bushings for the strut mount. I would greatly appreciate some help if anyone else has ran into this issue and what the fix was. Please and thank you!!!!
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