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Originally Posted by footsurg
Well, I have crawled under there and pulled on the sway links, and I can't feel any play. I suppose its kind of hard to check the bushings unless I pull them off, which I have not done as of yet. How often have you seen tension strut bushing, control arm and ball joint failures? My guess from what I have read is that the sway bar links are the sole problem most of the time. They are pretty inexpensive too. So I am just going to start there and change out the sway bar links. I won't have to have anything realigned after I swap them out, will I?
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Those end-links are almost always the source of the clunk.
The lateral control arm balljiont does fail once in a while too, although it's not as commonly criminal as the swaybar endlinks. Usually when a balljoint fails, there isn't any associated noise but just vibration/shimmy while driving.
The weak link in the tension strut seems to be the bushing rather than the balljoint, most of the time.