Hello-

I have a 2001 Dodoge Ram 1500, I have switched my old ProComp shocks out for Bilsteins (front and rear). I now get a clunking sound (driver and passenger side) when i drive over bumps, washboard roads etc. When i installed my ProComp shocks I had the same problem, of which i fixed by tightening the lower bolt on the shock. However now that I put new ones on its doing it again! So i know its the shock because there wasent any sounds like this coming form the suspension before I switched the shocks out. When installing the Bilsteins, I had to grind down (a few mm's) the metal sleeve that was in the lower shock bushing that the shock bolt goes through in order to make it fit on the mounting "block" (the shock goes through the axel coil and the lower shock eye fits into a "block" on the axel). I tightened it down with an impact wrench as much as I could and it still makes the noise (the upper bolts are tight as well). All I can think of is that there might be a small amount of play between the lower shock bolt, and the metal sleeve that the bolt goes through on the lower part of the shock. Is there anyway to tighten this "play" up? Any suggestions to fix this problem would be appreciated! Thanks a ton!

 

Welcome to the site. I will move this thread to the second generation Ram section,
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Crawl under the truck, grab the shock, and shake it. See if you can find where the slop is. Then see what you are going to have to do to fix it.

 

Did you torque the bottom shock mounts down to 100 foot pounds on the front?

 

I used a large IR impact wrench to tighten the lower bolts, i thought that would have done the job the torque wrench would have done? The bolt is as tight as i can get it.