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Hot Rod Dave
"Saucy saucy minx"
Im far from a god. LOL!! All is forgiven. You can make it up to me at DEV by playing me a FT5 for braggin rights!! LOL
Ahhhh....Lexus. What complicated pieces of shit.
Anyway. You can rule the wheel bearing out. That would have more of a "howling" noise while driving constantly. I got my wife a 92 LS400 quite a few years ago, and have fix tons of suspension on those damn things.
If you hear a clunking noise while going over bumps. Id take a look at your upper/lower ball joints. The upper is a ball joint/control arm assembly thats fairly easy to replace. Lower ball joints require pressing at a machine shop (such as mine) and a big pain in the ass.
Im not positive bout your particular lexus but, most of the GS300 & LS400 have air ride suspension. Which means instead of a shock, it has a fancy air filled strut that adjusts as you drive (a strut is a really fancy shock). So if you decide to dabble and try to fix it your self be very careful and look out for air lines, sensors and other fragile electric shit.
You also have rubber bushings. 2 total in each arm. and obviously you have a upper and lower control arm on both sides.
dont worry.......almost over
and easy way to check your suspension:
get the front wheel of the ground, only raise it bout 4 or 5 inches off the ground. obviously make sure your e brake is on and the rear tires have wood behind them
take a big bar. pry bar, fence post something thats bout 3 to 4 feet long and pretty sturdy. Shove the pry bar UNDER the front wheel and lift up on the end of the bar. What you want is to look at the suspension and get it to move. almost simulating while driving.
You take a good look at the ball joints upper and lower. Look for popping movements, listen for noises. The suspension SHOULD be real smooth and stiff (easy lobo!!!) it should be fairly difficult to move it around.
If you locate popping movements, put ur hand there. have someone move the bar around. Youll feel the popping in your hand.
Then if you still dont really find anything. Get in front of the tire like your gonna take the tire off. Grab the front of the tire and the rear of the tire and shake it. You shouldnt have any play what so ever. If you do you have tie rod issues.
OR
go to a suspension shop and have them check it. Its usually free or something like $20 or so. I used to do it for free at my shop.
Feel free to go to a shop and get an estimate and run it by me. I used to own a suspension shop so I will tell you if they are full of shit or not!
sorry bout the long rant. I like to teach people how to fix cars rather than spend a ton of money for something thats actually quite simple if you have half a brain. Someday I wann be a high school auto shop teacher so this is good practice.
Dude it would be fuckin heaven for me if you did that shit. Ill put you up for a few days we'll kick back, wrench on cars, and play some fuckin SC!! I wouldnt even charge you, you buy the parts at my cost, and Ill put em in for you!!
and is MEXICAN......dumbass
HRD
GreatOne1939
I Knew It!!!
Im far from a god. LOL!! All is forgiven. You can make it up to me at DEV by playing me a FT5 for braggin rights!! LOL
Ahhhh....Lexus. What complicated pieces of shit.
Anyway. You can rule the wheel bearing out. That would have more of a "howling" noise while driving constantly. I got my wife a 92 LS400 quite a few years ago, and have fix tons of suspension on those damn things.
If you hear a clunking noise while going over bumps. Id take a look at your upper/lower ball joints. The upper is a ball joint/control arm assembly thats fairly easy to replace. Lower ball joints require pressing at a machine shop (such as mine) and a big pain in the ass.
Im not positive bout your particular lexus but, most of the GS300 & LS400 have air ride suspension. Which means instead of a shock, it has a fancy air filled strut that adjusts as you drive (a strut is a really fancy shock). So if you decide to dabble and try to fix it your self be very careful and look out for air lines, sensors and other fragile electric shit.
this is a example of a UPPER ball joint/control arm for a lexus. The blue dust cover is actually the ball joint.
this is the lower control arm. The ball joint is (for lack of a better term) the pointy thingy on the right.
You also have rubber bushings. 2 total in each arm. and obviously you have a upper and lower control arm on both sides.
dont worry.......almost over
and easy way to check your suspension:
get the front wheel of the ground, only raise it bout 4 or 5 inches off the ground. obviously make sure your e brake is on and the rear tires have wood behind them
take a big bar. pry bar, fence post something thats bout 3 to 4 feet long and pretty sturdy. Shove the pry bar UNDER the front wheel and lift up on the end of the bar. What you want is to look at the suspension and get it to move. almost simulating while driving.
You take a good look at the ball joints upper and lower. Look for popping movements, listen for noises. The suspension SHOULD be real smooth and stiff (easy lobo!!!) it should be fairly difficult to move it around.
If you locate popping movements, put ur hand there. have someone move the bar around. Youll feel the popping in your hand.
Then if you still dont really find anything. Get in front of the tire like your gonna take the tire off. Grab the front of the tire and the rear of the tire and shake it. You shouldnt have any play what so ever. If you do you have tie rod issues.
OR
go to a suspension shop and have them check it. Its usually free or something like $20 or so. I used to do it for free at my shop.
Feel free to go to a shop and get an estimate and run it by me. I used to own a suspension shop so I will tell you if they are full of shit or not!
sorry bout the long rant. I like to teach people how to fix cars rather than spend a ton of money for something thats actually quite simple if you have half a brain. Someday I wann be a high school auto shop teacher so this is good practice.
Dude it would be fuckin heaven for me if you did that shit. Ill put you up for a few days we'll kick back, wrench on cars, and play some fuckin SC!! I wouldnt even charge you, you buy the parts at my cost, and Ill put em in for you!!
and is MEXICAN......dumbass
HRD
Only someone living around mescans for a long time in the WC would worry about that. Down in the south where all the real ones are they're just used to hearing that. Esses don't run the south like they do Cali. Lol! Dude you said the magic words. I'll probably drive down there some time in the next few months and knock this shit out. I've been needing to get my car worked on for awhile and I don't trust these non-greasy mechanics up here.
I'll play as much as you want, but I know shit about working on cars. So I can be your gogo cheerleader (I know I got my boots somewhere around here) while you show me real guy type knowledge. I'll probably come down there with my boy Sweets, that's a freaking 24 hour drive so we might have to stop somwhere half way in Cali before we get there. Either way it'll be fun. I"ll let you know when it seems the most plausible time.
Hot Rod Dave
"Saucy saucy minx"
odelay vato!!
Hell yeah. Im actually going on vacation middle of next month. If its something you really wanna do. Hell yeah homes, im totally down for that. Yall should pick up krayzie and NDK on the way. I know NDK needs work on his hot rod. Itll be a fuckin party!!
Yeah the vatos run the streets down here for shizzle. Got easy access weed tho. LOL
HRD