[Spits] Rear End Noise.... dumb question

[Doug Braun]

Is this a single or erratic knock, or a continuous knock-knock-knock-knock?

Here is one way to test those U-joints:

Put the car in neutral and cost at about 25 MPG.  Do some reasonably quick
S-turns,
zig-zagging back and forth.  If the knock-knock-knock appears as you turn,
but not as you are going
straight, it could be the U-jonts.

Once I had an erratic knock back there, and it turned out to be that the
eye had broken off of one end of a rear
shock, and the end of the shock was smashing against the mounting stud
every time I went over a bump.
This was a bummer, since the car still had the original DeCarbon shocks,
which had been in perfect working order.
I tried a couple of different types of replacements, but the originals were
better than any of them.

Doug


On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Jim Cullen <ccullen16 at cogeco.ca> wrote:

> Hi listers.....
>
> I wonder if I could get some insight/advice on a knocking noise that seems
> to
> be coming from the RH side of my rear end. I notice it more @ once I get
> up to
> about 50 km/hr, especially over bumps (to the point I thought it was the
> shock
> absorber and replaced that to see if it disappears as it seemed to sound
> like
> the shock absorber was b bottoming outb b  unfortunately, no joy there),
> and when making left turns.