Rear strut brace, making noise after install

[storms_of_fate]

I've installed an OMP rear strut bar on my 172, but have found the car now makes a lot of metal clunking noises when ever it goes over uneven surface... which is basically everywhere. This is combined with an occasional unlubricated spring compressing noise. Any ideas? I have not tested witht he bar off yet, only installed yesterday. But I would thinkg it will go away if I did.

Cheers

 

[nathanH]

sounds more like worn top mounts than anything else, could be a coincedence.

 

[.Kev.]

I had the same kind of noises when i fitted mine.

The rubber mounts were also squeeking alot. You also get alot more road noise in the car sounded like my wheel bearing had gone, ive taken it out now and i cant hear anything, it was doing my nut in

 

[storms_of_fate]

Does sound a bit like the front mount knocking noise, but that only happens on full lock. I'll remove it and see how it goes, but I'd still need to find a fix somehow. But there's no way I can live witht the noise it makes at the moment, feels like the car is about fall into small bits at the rear, and when I'd be driving only the front half of the car any second!

Thanks guys!

Karl

 

[-Make-]

same problem here. omp strut brace stays in garage.

 

[murcod]

Could the noise be because you aren't actually bracing the strut towers with these braces but just tying the shock tops together? So, the body can still flex, but the shocks can't move independantly with the body like they used to. So now the shocks are trying to move around more in the body strut tower holes (due to the body still flexing but them resisting the movement against each other) and this is causing the noises?

 

[Fred@BTM]

waste of money, sell it to someone else

 

[murcod]

waste of money, sell it to someone else

:lolup: And here I was trying to subtly explain that it may not actually be doing the desired task.... that reply is "straight to the point"!

 

[-Make-]

working strut is not wasting. also mk2 rallycars have those. rear indeed, not on the front.

 

[Fred@BTM]

i think you'll find the rally car one isn't a rubbish little bendy bit of metal from OMP

they do the grand total of zero for the chassis

 

[-Make-]

you are right fred.

new try next week. vaseline could help that noisething..