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I replaced mines last summer but it didnt help...guess ill change control arm next time

This post has been edited by HaRv3sTeR: Apr 3, 2006 - 8:40 PM

New struts solved my trunk clunking

This post has been edited by azian_advanced: Feb 12, 2007 - 1:46 AM

weird that the interior control arm (#487x0A) doesnt look the same as this one (#2) on this picture:



do you think Rayme that I should change both interior and exterior arms?

This post has been edited by HaRv3sTeR: Apr 26, 2006 - 10:55 AM

from the reference picture azian posted it seems you can change the bushing in the front arms, but you need whole arms in the rear arms...the part number is specified for the celica without the sport package.

in the 5th gen you need both new arms..this is wierd

This post has been edited by Rayme: Apr 26, 2006 - 1:44 PM

So if I have the sports package.. will those bushings and nuts work for #1, #2, and #3?

K. I managed to locate the bushings for #2.. but I have a question.

For suspension arm #1.. is the bushing built in? Because if you look at the schematic picture above, there's no separate part for the bushing.
Is this the same as the knuckle (since there IS a bushing of some sort between the knuckle and the rear control arm).

Has anyone seen suspension arm #1?

I've read about this problem all over. I have an early 94 celica.

Ever since a bodyshop installed my Eibach Sportline's, my right rear makes a clunking noise whenever I go over any kind of bump. Could this be it?

This post has been edited by silverspyder: May 1, 2006 - 11:10 PM

take it apart and make sure nothing is loose.

First diagram posted is of a sixth-gen Celica -- note the No. 2 (rearmost) arm with the bulge. That bulge is the toe adjuster.

The second diagram is of the fourth-gen Celica, which had the rectangular No. 1 suspension arm, instead of the cylindrical arms Toyota started using in the 1990s, and in the fifth-gen Celica specifically.

Well, I contacted 1sttoyotaparts.com and they were very helpful. Apparently, the suspension arms come with the bushings already pressed in (and is included in their price). The bushing for the front arm of the rear suspension can be purchased separated (as denoted by the part #), but the rear arm bushing is only sold along with the arm.

In case anyone else wanted to know. :b

suspension arm #2

well then, i guess my thread topic was not using the correct term, i had knocking noise, but clunking is what i should have used. I will try to save up and see if this works, im so tired of that noise i am about to go nuts. thanks for the info and help.

is this the arm we're talking about having the noises? or just to show the toe adjuster?

I've been having the same problem. I just put my Suspension Techniques swaybars and bushings a week ago and that solved the sway bar "thud" that I had been hearing since I bought the car. Just last night I started hearing a clunking sound from the back right side, nothing seems loose on any of the parts back there. While working on the sway bar we moved the control arm with the toe adjuster, could that be the problem? or could it be my end-link ball joints? I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it has to be 1 of those options

FINALLY NO CLUNKING!!!


it was the exhaust pipe who was hitting 2 small rods underneath...dammit never saw that before

???sorry I dont know the name of those rods (they go from the suspension to the wheel hub)???


we discovered that those rods had some wear right under the exhaust pipe is (where the hitting was)



maybe this will help those who got the same problem than me

This post has been edited by HaRv3sTeR: May 15, 2006 - 7:27 AM

Well my clunking turned out to be my endlink slightly loose on the sway bar, so we're all good!

But now my front wheel bearing that I JUST replaced is going bad, grrrrrr!

Maybe I'll just buy a new car this week lol

i had same proplem with my 5th gen celica too..
i changed my rear suspention top mounts.. and sound stoped.

Hi - I just ordered 2 rubber bushings, I found that the easiest way to fit them was to put the rear wheels on the ramp. Then you undo the bracket that holds the stabilizing bushes. Pop em out and replace. Takes about 30mins total for this project.

This post has been edited by san0: Feb 11, 2007 - 4:25 PM

Sway Bar Mount Bushing

http://www.partsamerica.com/product_images/AAP/TRW/K5248.jpg

http://www.colin99.co.uk/home_car.html
http://www.colin99.co.uk/bushes.jpg

I just replaced these and I have no clunks at last!! Woo Hoo.

This post has been edited by san0: Feb 11, 2007 - 4:27 PM

I'm getting a lot of not working pictures in this thread. Can anyone help out with that? By the way, this thread is great.