Re: '86 4kcsq: thunking noise from rear end

[Robert Phillips <r3rfp@dax.cc.uakron.edu>]

On Thu, 21 Sep 1995, Dan Cooke cooke@bng.ge.com wrote:

>  Anyone experience this lately...  Driving down the road at normal speed.
>  Take foot of the accelerator to decelerate for 1 or 2 seconds.  Then when
>  I reapply accelerator to previous position, a thunk noise is evident from
>  the rearend of car.  Where is all this slack or rearend play comming from?

My FWD 4000S made the same noise from the front when the control arm 
bushings went bad.

When I was going steady state in any gear, then blipped the throttle, it 
made a dull thunk through the body.

Raise the car up, see if you can move the control arms back and forth or 
front to back.  There might be a little play, due to the rubber bushings, 
but there shouldn't be a massive amount.  If they are bad, you'll know 
what I mean.  The whole wheel/suspension assembly would rock back  and 
forth when mine went bad.

Robert Phillips
The University of Akron Sociology Department-------Akron, Ohio
1987 Audi 4000S, 1.8L 4-cyl, FWD-----SOLO II D-Street Prepared