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Ok if the link works you can see the red arrow pointing to a rubber thing. What I thought was a bumber of sorts incase of bottoming out. When I got the new axle this was not on it. So I skipped it and installed any way. Since then I have replaced the front ball joints, mcpherson struts, axles, brake pads and replaced the passenger side spindle as the bearing had some play. All in the quest to find a friggin sound that still exists. Could this rubber thing be some sort of vibration dampner or inertia system?

The sound is really hard to describe but it seems to happen during clutch release and engage and it's on the right side of my 94 ST. It's sorta like a sound like their is play from the axle and the spindle, like the axle has to move to catch the splines in the spindle? It is more defined in reverse too. This is the only way I can describe it...

The whole thing is good and tight, with all the new parts I installed. But this sound is driving me insane. I also want to add it seems to come from the wheel or strut area, but I can only assume it something in the clutch department as all wheel parts are new.

The car has 120k miles and is in awesome condition. Could it be the clutch system breaking down? It still seems plenty strong to me with no slipping or anything. Altough the pedal is a bit high to engage. Lemme know what you guys think I should do to try to narrow it down, as I already dumped more money at this one problem then I needed too.



Update: Ok I just parked on a hill and rolled myself backward hitting the break at intervalls. It seems to me now that noise has something to do with the right side suspension. It sounds like a loose mount somewhere. The strange thing is when the car is jacked up and I push the wheel around everyting is tight as can be? Maybe it's a bad bushing or control arm mount? Are the lower A arms known to go bad on these cars?

Yup im retarded, got water in the Plugs. Fixed it quick though lol.

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Hey guys, I took my 94 ST to power wash the engine compartment as I have done in the past. I keep the engine running while doing this as I've heard it keeps you from cracking the block (not sure how true this is). Anyways when I drove home from the carwash it was bogging while hitting the gas and then it would sorta pop back into regular mode after say 3k rpm. I thought maybe I got a little water in the intake as it was high pressure water. I let it sit and drove it the next day and it seemed alot better.

Well today I took it out on the highway for around 30 miles one way it was working fine but when I got off the highway the bogging started up again and lasted the whole way home. I checked for any vacuum lines that may of popped off and inspected spark plug wires and such all seemd good and tight. I looked at the oil just to be sure their wan't water in there and it was nice and clean, I also checked in the airbox and that was all dry too.

I'm baffled, anyone have any ideas what I should look for or what else I can check? I'm going to pull all the spark plug wires and plugs, and inspect the distributer cap for water but other then that I dunno.....

Update: I reset the ECU as per this forums and no change....Also the check engine light isn't on.