[Shotimes] Re: This damn rattle's driving me nuts!

[Arjun Khosla]

Thanks for the suggestions, everybody-- turns out it was the swaybar 
endlinks.  Cranked it a little tighter, and suddenly the rattle is as 
occasional as it was back in February, rather than the constant tappity 
sound that it had become in recent weeks!  I'll tighten it up a little 
further still the next time I've got my car's rear end off the ground (I 
need to get another box-end wrench-- I don't feel comfortable tightening 
things up much with a crescent wrench on one end and a box-end on the 
other side)...  In the meantime, it's a pretty wicked improvement! 
 Probably the cheapest repair I've ever made on my SHO!

Thanks,
    -Arjun
    89 SHO


Kevin & Cheryl Airth wrote:

>Arjun:
> I would start with this. Remove the endlinks and then drive where you got
>the noise before to see if any changes. The rear sway bar can also rattle in
>the frame mounts with wear. Also the upper strut mount but your description
>of the noise is different than the strut mount clunk I know.
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>>Hi Arjun
>>I had a similar problem on my '89, a rattle I and passengers swore was
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>from
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>>the right rear door area. It turned out to be a bad rear sway bar end
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>link.
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>>Clayton
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>>>Message: 2
>>>Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 20:08:29 -0700
>>>From: Arjun Khosla <shojun@mtrs.org>
>>>To: shotimes@autox.team.net
>>>Subject: [Shotimes] This damn rattle's driving me nuts!
>>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>For the past few months, I've had a bit of a rattle coming from the rear
>>>passenger-side door, seeming to originate from just behind the door
>>>latch.  It's more of a tappity-tap-tap-tap kind of a rapping sound, but
>>>I'm hoping that possibly somebody here might've had their first gen SHO
>>>start rattling around the same area, and possibly might've found a
>>>solution, and be willing to share it...
>>>
>>>So far I've pulled my backseat out (surprisingly easy, except that I've
>>>got to find a place to store it until I've solved the rattle), adjusted
>>>the door hinges, pulled out some interior plastic molding around the
>>>rear-corner window, and I've pushed and smacked just about anything I
>>>can access from inside the trunk and up on the package tray.
>>>
>>>All to no avail.  At least, nothing's helped with the rattle-- the car
>>>does look better having both passenger-side doors aligned the same,
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>though.
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>>>I'm continuing to search for things that might rattle, but really, I'm
>>>at a loss.
>>>
>>>Argh!  Stupid car!  Can't abandon her quite yet-- today my boss was
>>>trying to convince me to buy an older Jaguar, or a newer Mustang SVT...
>>> Tempting...  Stupid rattle!  Maybe I'll look into buying a newer SHO,
>>>maybe a gen 3 with the V8... ooooohhhh....
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>    -Arjun
>>>    89 SHO
>>>
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>>>
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