Rear Drop Hanger

[Joshua]

Evening all,

 

I get an occasional "clunk" from the rear (nearside I think) of my Gal when going over speed bumps etc a bit too fast. It sounded to me just like a loose exhaust knocking something to the side of it - but had a poke around and all seemed in order.

 

My mate also has a Gal as he said that he had the same noise and the dealer claimed it was a loose 'rear drop hanger'. Anyone know what / where this is and whether it is likely to be the source of the knock?

 

Cheers,

Josh

[gregers]

it could well be the drop links need replacing,fairly common problem on the gal,do a search on drop links it might explain the noise your hearing?.

[richyrich]

I found an easy way to check with my gal was to grab hold of the roof bar and rock the car sideways. You will soon hear a noise from the said drop links.

I've had to do mine twice now and the nearside again as well. i think the one's from Fraud are better now though as this has lasted a fair amount of time.

Easy to change.

 

richyrich

[marinabrid]

do they have drop links on rear ?

[richyrich]

No - but it sounds as though it's from the rear whilst I'm driving. Had exactly the same problem with our pug 206 as well.

I would recognise the sound easily now, you won't hear it whilst driving along normally, it's just when something in the road affects the suspension.

[sparky Paul]

We had have a knocking at the back nearside too - although the exhaust looked fine at the back, I found that two exhaust hangers had snapped/rotted off, one on the front pipe and one in front of the middle box.

 

Welding these back on seems to have fixed it, so I guess although the exhaust didn't seem to be hanging lower than normal, it must have been more floppy than usual. The exhaust is quite close where the end of the middle pipe passes over the rear cross member, I reckon that's when the knock was coming from. :wacko:

Edited June 16, 2007 by sparky Paul