Popping clunk from back end when stopping...

[Kneale Brownson]

Trapezoid arms bushings.

At 02:43 PM 1/28/2005 -0800, ORSOPERS wrote:
>Anyone have any ideas what might cause pop or clunk from the rear end when
>stopping?  It doesn't happen every stop.  If I am very light on the brakes
>it wont do it.  The back end of the car has to come up some.  Sometimes the
>clunk happens 1/2 a second after letting up on the brake pedal, but usually
>it is right when I let up on it.
>
>My first thought was the upper strut mount so I pulled out the back seat
>today and checked everything for tightness.  Everything was tight.  If I
>jack up the back end of the car and let it down quickly it doesn't pop or
>clunk.
>
>I did have a problem with one of the front brake pads once that was sort of
>like this.  The anti-rattle clip thingys had gotten smashed and allowed the
>pad to move in the caliper a bit.  If you would back up and stop then go
>forward, the first time you hit the brakes again it would clunk.  Wouldn't
>clunk again until you went in reverse, stopped, went forward again.
>
>I have been driving it around with the back seat out and the noise is more
>pronounced (the back seat is a great sound insulator).  I can hear the gas
>sloshing around in the tank and thought that maybe it was a loose baffle or
>something, but I don't think so.
>
>
>Thanks for everything!
>
>Rand Soper
>'88 80q
>
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