Drop Link? Can you describe it?

 

The swaybar link between the shock body and swaybars. That's normally a culprit, like I mentioned.

p.s. I missed your call earlier, I apologize. It seems you have your hands full trying to figure it out. I'll call ya later.

 

I thought I would post the conclusion to this thread so it would prove useful to anyone in the future.

The problem was the spring. Not the shock as H&R suspected. The spring has a marginally smaller diameter than the stock spring. This combined with the lack of pre-load over the stock spring allows the spring to move around on the perch. The noise was a result of the spring compressing and rotating into the perch stop on the lower part of the strut. The spring wants to rotate when compressed as a result of how the spring is wound/coiled.

Solution: Placed a piece of plastic hose on the end of the spring. Problem solved. May not last forever but ensures that I won't go mad in the mean while!

 

Thanks for the update.
My top washer seems to be upside down, according to the diagram. What diameter hose did you use?

 

Not sure exactly. It's pretty close to the diameter of the spring though. You can buy it at any Lowes or Home Depot, It's essentially irrigation tubing for flower beds....

 

Still double check that drop link. Normally the spring does not fully extend when going over a bump at low speed.

 

hey guys ,,,

I just had the H&R springs fitted and got the car back yesterday ....

'02 996 C2

It looks 100x better than US stock ride height ,,,

I have a nasty cold so I just drove home and didn't pay too much attention to anything but getting in the bed ...

my Q ,,, what sort of issues can arise if the " thunk" sound isn't addressed ?

thanks -