Rear Sway bar issue

[02V8Sport]

This is a weird isue and I dont know if anyone else has experienced this. My 04 LS is lowered and I kept getting a grinding type noise from the rear of the car so I replaced the entire knuckle. The noise is still there.

I took the wheel off last night to find a spot of paint worn off on my driver rear spring and on the sway bar toward the link. Looks like when the car leans around right turns the swaybar and spring touch and make this noise from the road. Anyone else experience this? Im wondering how the swaybar and spring can even come into contact with eachother???

This car has never been in an accident so thats out of the question.

 

[HyeLifeLS]

That's crazy.

 

[02V8Sport]

I cant explain it either. I will check the other side of the swaybar tonight to see if there is something going on there.

 

[HyeLifeLS]

Maybe it's the "padding" that you have in your rear springs? you know that thing that you added to make em not compress all the way..

 

[02V8Sport]

Maybe it's the "padding" that you have in your rear springs? you know that thing that you added to make em not compress all the way..

no I took all that out. I run on 245/40 tires all the way around. Its nice to be able to rotate and save tires

 

[02V8Sport]

Just from looking at the rear suspension. I am going to make this another swaybar bushing project for the rear bushings as well. The only thing I can think of is that the rear rubber bushings are too worn and weak to hold the rear swaybar from flexing too far. I am going to also get polyurethane bushings for the rear now, but those are meant to come off, unlike the front where I had to cut those bushings off.

 

[HyeLifeLS]

cool