Torque box Q's

[Stangman]

I recently installed upper and lower control arms on my '94 GT and over the past few weeks I've noticed that sometimes when I shift gears or throw it up a gear or two when slowing down that I get some sort of clunking/clinking/popping from the rear end... Is it even remotely possible that my 202,000 mile car maybe popped a torque box or two loose?

[99Slobra]

If you recently added them and now you're getting noise I'd get back over the bolts and check to see if they came loose.

[Stangman]

Thats the plan tonight, but when they were installed we put the Death Torque on them lol

[99Slobra]

lol. Check them and the bushings. Have you done any hard launches recently on DR's?

[Stangman]

nope just playing on the street with street tires, I have All new bushings, the bushings in the arms are poly's, and I even replaced the dreaded Axle bushings, lo!

[5.0calypso93lx]

Was the suspension loaded when you tightened the control arm bolts?

[Stangman]

no, we had the car and axle supported on stands

[hpfiend]

Did you replace the bushings in the ears of the differential as well as the control arm bushings? That is what it sounds like to me...

[ibstrokin]

Check your u-joints also.

[Stangman]

Replaced the Bushings in the ears, brand new control arms with poly bushings, and the u-joints arent that old, I had them replaced with the Brute Force joints