Bad knocking

[masetw]

Was driving home from bath to london today and the car was fine. got into london and the car started to knock from the front end there has always been a bit of a knocking sound sort of like the exhaust against sub frame or body. had a look at my driver side Drop Link and looked kind of fookd. Could this be the problem? and how much knocking would it cause?

Cheers
Mason:y:

[stendog]

yes a fucked drop link would cause knocking, amount depends on how fucked it is, also check the wishbone ball joint to make sure that is ok

[Bobo0907]

yes a fucked drop link would cause knocking, amount depends on how fucked it is, also check the wishbone ball joint to make sure that is ok

What would a fucked ball joint look like? Just like worn away? Think mines gone as there is a loud knocking noise over speed bumbs and I already replaced the drop link so it cant be that.

[stendog]

visually the gaitor could be split best bet is jack the car up and support on an axle stand then if you a lever bar or large screwdriver put some pressure on the wishbone pulling it downwards to see if there is excessive movement in the ball joint itself

[masetw]

So im just about the jack the car up what should i be looking for gonna take pics to see what people think

[masetw]

Just had a look and basically this week i done a wheel bearing on the N/S wheel because there was loads of play in it after i done the driveshaft seal. So just jacked it up again now and got the EXACT same problem maybe even worse. and i wheel bearing wouldnt fail after 250 miles. so im thinking could it be a dodgy hub?

[stevie_m]

Just had a look and basically this week i done a wheel bearing on the N/S wheel because there was loads of play in it after i done the driveshaft seal. So just jacked it up again now and got the EXACT same problem maybe even worse. and i wheel bearing wouldnt fail after 250 miles. so im thinking could it be a dodgy hub?

How long have you had the car ?


wouldn't a fooked drop link not just make bump worse ? making you feel every bump roads have to offer.

[masetw]

had the car bout a month now. driveshaft seal was leaking so done that but while i was doing that i noticed the wheel bearing was fucked so replaced that and everything was stiff and all good drove back from bath to london was fine then as i got near my house started hearing knocking jacked it up and the bearing is fucked again as it has loads of play in the wheel

[stevie_m]

like ive said before in another thread a guy from this forum steviee90 had this problem ...

basically kept happening because his car was a Cat C.

Why dont you pm him and ask him the problems he had with his saxo and find out you had the same type of symtoms

[masetw]

So no way around it then tbh?

[stevie_m]

well do you fancy buying a new driveshaft every once in a while ?

if you find this is the same prob I know he'd advise you to punt asap

[TMSaxo]

I've got a knocking and it is the cat.

[masetw]

Its not the driveshaft tho its the wheel bearing that is working loose?

[SandmanVTR]

Just curious, would changing drop links cause the tracking to change at all?

[sax0gal]

no the a/r/b link wouldnt change the tracking and i had a fooked hub which caused my wheel bearing to fail in about 7 days go to your local scrappy you can pick one up for about 20 quid

[GRAHAM2000VTR]

did you fit the right wheel bearing as there is 2 different ones for tappered and non-tappered drivshaft