Metal on metal sound when going over bumps

[leeboss87]

Hi all just sorted one problem and immediately discovered another, every time I hit a large bump in the road I'm hearing a metal on metal banging together noise from the front right, just wondered if anyone had any ideas what to look for, thanks

 

[newbster]

worn front arb bushes, allows the arb to contact the subframe and sounds really bad
I tried all the pushing and pulling and levering to try to replicate the noise when up on stands, just couldn't do it

what I did in the end was to disconnect one of the drop links from the bottom arm and go for a (slow) drive round the block, no noise, which confirmed it was arb/drop links

changed arb bushes and drop links, now nice and quiet

 

[leeboss87]

Excellent cheers mate, the drop links have recently been changed so will try the arb bushes, is it worth getting poly bushes?

 

[daithi23]

Checking in to hear the answer about polybushing these. I was tempted before but didn't bother.

 

[ayfreetee]

Not really necessary on a road car, rubber is more comfortable on our crappy pot holed roads.

 

[leeboss87]

Not really necessary on a road car, rubber is more comfortable on our crappy pot holed roads.

Ok thanks mate, standard bushes it is