I'm getting a noise and some vibration on left hand turns and i read that some others were having the same thing. So is this normal or not, and whats causing the noise?

 

metal is vibrating against metal... honestly i think u need to tighten ita lil more than it is stated.

 

Are you talking about the brackets?

 

Are you using the metal washers that are supplied in the kit?????

 

no it states to leave them off

 

http://www.*************/forums/showthread.php?t=4149
Take a look at this how to.

 

hopefully this isnt too bad of a problem or can easily be remedied.... i just ordered my ingalls dampener literally 2 min. ago

 

i've been all over that thread and i've checked everthing like 5 times

 

I would go along with what Sempher55 said.

Yes the brackets.

 

I will try that out

 

Just to be sure I would also give the bolts attaching the strut to the braces a tighten as well.

 

i think thats what is wrong... i had to tighten mine... but im wondering if i went to home depot and bought some very thin rubber washer rings... that would reduce the noise. but then again some people have it on and arent experiencing any noise at all. so maby were all just doing the same thing wrong lol

 

According to Ingalls you are not to use the metal washers.

 

I got mine from TTR and put it on yesterday. It didn't come with metal washers.
It did have 2 thin rubber o-ring type washers that go in-between the strut and the bracket.

 

well i tighten up all the bolts and no luck, so i'm going to take it off

 

I also had this noise, I even posted about it ("noise when turning hard left"). I originally thought it was the large bracket hitting the fin of the motor mount, so I ground it to give a little more clearance. That didn't work. I pulled the entire unit off, it looks like the small bracket was hitting, so when I reinstalled I made sure to pull it away from the mount. I also put some high density foam under both brackets where the mount to the frame and engine. I haven't tested it yet but am hopeful.

I think it only happens on left turns because the engine shifts toward the passanger side and causes the motor to bracket contact.

 

I know with my old style brackets I would occasionally have this problem. It was caused from the bracket rubbing against the motor mount. Turn the car left and then stop it in the turn and look under the hood. If it's rubbing you can either loosen the bolts holding the bracket and try to shove it closer to the motor or grind out the bracket holes a little bit to allow for more room.

If that isn't what's happening, then I'm pretty clueless as to any other ideas. The gentleman saying metal on metal is most likely correct though.

Ben

 

problem solved, the small bracket was rubbing so i moved it closer to the engine and its all good now. Thanks for all the input guys

 

Cool as I was just about to post I have really no noise while turning except for the small vibration noise that it always creates