control arm help

[mazdaspeeeeed]

Just installed used control arms on both sides, and new outer tie rod ends. took it for a test drive and the right side is giving me a medal on medal clinking noise when i go over bumps with that wheel... i checked and every bolt is super tight (used a breaker bar and impact wrench).... any ideas where the noise is coming from?

EDIT: bad bushing. went to napa bushing was 20 and they pressed it out and put the new one in for 15. beats buying a new LCA

 

[mazdaspeeeeed]

maybe the bushing is bad?

I dont think it would be the ball joint, but the other bushing that has one bolt going through it vertically into the frame of the car....
thats the only thing i can think of..

 

[tmadmsp]

sounds like a bushing to me. mine is doing the same thing I looked underneath and rolled the passenger side tire back and forth and could see a lot of play in the bushing. Now I just have to figure out how big of a pain its going to be to replace

 

[mazdaspeeeeed]

im switching the bushing out tomorrow. getting the LCA out was pretty easy if you have a breaker bar or impact wrench.. the bushing itself was 20 bucks