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Old 01-15-2008, 11:33 AM
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I purchased one from this seller on Ebay HERE great price, I was sceptical, but thought it was worth a shot, he had good feedback....delivery to Ireland and all for under $200.

Fitted to X approx 5 months ago, no issues, takes approx 30 mins to do once you have a ramp and car is off the ground...

Also please read....Bit long winded this but may help others with the annoying suspension 'CLUNK', I've been meaning to post on this for a while now, I had an annoying 'Clunk' in passenger (left for me, I'm in Ireland) side front suspension since I got the Jeep...

Best description I have of 'Clunk' is...when turning left at slow speeds ease off accelerator, straighen up and then accelerate, or drive slowly up a Curb (allowing left wheel to hit curb first), or (in a carpark perhaps), turn left at slow speed, hard lock right, as weight of car shifts from left to right) a very noticable metal sounding 'clunk', cannot be mistaken for anything else, seem's to coming from right under floor in footwell and seems to be closer to transmission tunnel than to the wheel, not sure if my description is confusing but if you have the clunk you'll know, all I can say is it never happen's when going straight or fast and always as the weight of the car shifts.

I changed the control arm and tension struts including ball-joint (think they are the correct terms) but clunk was still present, next move was to do the sway bars, but left side outer CV boot was split, and the dreaded clicking had started and was getting more annoying so it was my next job.

I purchased one of the above and fitted it, no stealer issues for me either as my brother is a mechanic. He said the clunk I had was not the CV he was adamant that CV's never make this kind of noise, he was convinced it was the antiroll bar bushings (mounts), anyway's fitted new CV Axle and guess what 'clunk' was gone. complete silence from the front of the car

As we wern't expecting this we had a good look at the old CV Axle and there was a lot of sideways play (left to right along the shaft), so we figured the shaft must be moving in and out of the damaged CV as the weight of the car shifts, no scientific evidence to back this up but my clunk is gone, as a matter of best prectice I had replaced right side control arm/tension struts also, so car feels very tight up front

Hope this is of help to some of you guys, and I can 100% vouch for the seller in the link (no relation), and the CV axle 5 months and 8,000 miles later is still perfect
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