Rear Struts
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Rear Struts
I've owned this 04 sti for a couple of months now and love it! The rear struts clunk, are they bad or is this normal?
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If i put half a tank of Shell V power, and half a tank of Chevron with Techron. Will i get v-tec??
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If i put half a tank of Shell V power, and half a tank of Chevron with Techron. Will i get v-tec??
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you sure its the struts, there are a couple of itbs for the water cooler moving that can sound like strut knock, and for the subframe/diff shift knock. water tank there is no fix for the shift knock, a set of bushings or whole rear kit will clear that up. May be the struts but usually its not
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The water tank is tight. the car has 102,000 miles on it, and they were never replaces. I got the service records from the dealer. All of the bushings look good as far as i can tell
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The bushing may be tight but have to much play, its very common, search it you wil see. I've seen a lot of these cars wit much higher mileage than that with original struts 102 isn't that high.
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'04 Sti struts are know to clunk. There is a write up on ScoobyMods that explain how to fix this, but it means taking the assemby appart.
http://www.scoobymods.com/04-sti-rea...ing-t9972.html
If your going to do that, might as well get a new set of struts or some nice coilovers.
http://www.scoobymods.com/04-sti-rea...ing-t9972.html
If your going to do that, might as well get a new set of struts or some nice coilovers.
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I'll have to look in to both problems more in depth.. Thanks
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I do have a much better spring compressor than the one in the write up. I'll have to confirm it's the struts clunking over bumps and stuff
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I've never needed a spring compressor but should make it a lot easier if your by yourself and I read somewhere that the Mobil 1 red grease was recommended
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