Thanks a lot man.
I know my next mod is gunna be either a header or jdm tails, i dunno what I can afford yet though.
Can't really afford a whole lot of mods this year cause of school, but Im getting a 45% rebate on my insurance, and just had a job interview at an engineering firm so finger crossed and maybe Ill be able to afford some new parts haha,.

Also just got a text from my buddy who works at the post office and they have arrived, so Ill be picking them up after class!

Wooooo got my parts!
Now all I need is a battery so I can pull my car out of storage and take it in to have the clutch installed.

Wooo just dropped the car off at the transmission shop.
Clutch is getting installed and it should be done sometime tomorrow!
So pumped.

Well today was a frustrating day.
Was supposed to pick up the car at 4, so I called just before i was gunna leave, and they said don't bother because they damaged one of the axle seals and needed to find a new one.
So I got a call about 45 min later and they said they found a seal, so I was off to pick up my car, halfway across the city.
Get there, pay for it, my ride leaves and I go to leave in my car. GO to take of and all I hear is clunk clunk clunk.


Got the car up on the hoist to see what went wrong(sounded like the axle popped out) checked it out and the axle was still in place and did not slide out.
SO they drove it on the lift and everything was fine, so they dropped it back to the ground.
Backed it out of the shop no problem, put it in first and clunk clunk clunk again.

Back on the lift, they tried to pry the axle out of the tranny and it wouldn't budge, But it still clunked and would not drive, as if the axle was out.
This was right before the shop closed so they said they'll look at it on monday.
Called my house, no one was home, called my dad who was my ride and he didn't have his phone.
So I sat outside the shop for 45 mins while I wanted for my buddy to pick me up.

Definately not impressed.

Sorry to hear. Hopefully it gets resolved quickly. What clutch did you get?

Yea hopefully, Im thinking they just rushed puttin in the axle and something screwed up, but I guess I gotta wait till Monday.
I just got the OEM Toyota clutch, I don't see a swap or turbo being very feasable anytime soon anyways.

Picked the car up and I was super stoked. Got my rims on and the stereo re-installed and drove it basically all day... and then I heard more clunking.

Apparently I picked the worst trans and diff shop in the city because this is the second problem.
They ended up breaking one of the clips on the driver side axle so it would not go into the tranny properly.
But now the passenger side is clunkin, everytime I shift, hit a bump, or start pressing the breaks, and I know it has something to do with what they did.

I took a look at it, and I'm thinking it has something to do with the nut that bolts the hub in, because it was basically finger tight, and with no wheel on the lugs had about an 8th of movement within the rotor, which shouldn't happen. So I'm thinking they just forgot to tighten something, but I don't want to start messing around with things before I contact the shop, because then they could turn around and say you messed with it so we're not gunna touch it now.

Sonow I gotta wait till tomorow and talk to the shop, and hopefully this will solve the problem.
But I can say one thing, I'm very unimpressed and beyond frustrated.

sorry bro, thats why DIY is better.

Yea definately.
Only thing is I had a cast on for 2.5 months cause I needed surgery on my wrist, so there was no way I would have been able to get anything done on it.
Definately wish I would have gone another route..

if your in canada i would keep yer celica as your winter DD and save up for a GT-4 as your legaly able to import/own them there......would be the best route and be less work needing to do a swap..... looking good though man keep it up!

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nice part !

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Thanks man.
I've definately thought about it and looked into it a lot.
But right now its just not feasable for me money wise, with paying for college and everything, but maybe one day.
My parents are also really against RHD, especially my dad because of stories he has heard about his buddys helix and my buddies silvia, he doesn't believe that almost all of the parts froma USDM celica are interchangable.

And they co-signed for my car so I can't really argue with them right now, but who knows, maybe sometime in the near future, or if this motor goes out, or something major happens, I could do a 3sgte swap. I've just started reading about that swap for interests sake, so maybe one day haha.

But for now I gotta fix whats wrong with it before I can mod anything else like I planned for this year, Unfortunately.
Gotta love unexpected problems happening all at once..

Took it back to the shop, and they said there was nothing wrong with it, and that I could drive from Winnipeg to Calgary and back(over 1000km) and it would be safe

So I took it to another shop adn they checkd over everything that the first place would have had had to touch in order to do the clutch, they said they couldn't find anything. They found that the front brake caliper was sticking so they cleaned it out and nothing.
The only thing they could think of was worn out bearings within the axle, but that they couldn't tell untill they pulled it apart.
They recommended I get a new axle, so I got it back, and the proble is still there.
The motor moutns and everything were checked and all other bushings and they were a little worn, but nothing that would cause that problem.

He said the only other thing he could think of would be the struts, beacause he had it driving good right after, and then when he took a u turn, there was a big bang and the sound came back. So he readjusted the spring within the strut and it drove good again, and then the same thing happened.

I knew the struts need to be replaced anyways, so I may as well give it a try, even if its not the solution, which Im hoping it is.
So I ordered some KYB gr-2's and KYB mounts all around.

Got all the parts, and got the two rear struts installed.
WHen I take teh front two out of the box, one of the struts does not rebound at all, So now I have to send them back and wait for a new one arrrive.
I also found out that the rubber spring insulators below the spring were completely torn up, so I ordered those today.

And I'm really hoping this solves the problem, because my car has been sitting on jack stands since before winter, and I'm really anxious to drive it.
The two days of driving it after the clutch was done was such a tease.

Suprising how these problems always just "seem to happen" after a shop has it aye. One of the many reasons i always try to do things myself as you never really know how much effort theyve put in or if they botched something up and decided to say nothing about it. Bearings are a good exaample of this. I understand in your case you werent able to do it with your wristthough

i had clunk sound on my celica before my swap, i didnt know what that was, my front crossmember was broken, but as i get going i notice a big loose in the driver side spendel, (this some kind of cylinder that can pop out slowly and need to be replace it become loose, i changed all the assembly, from shock to the tab and no clunk no more for me, if that can help

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Yea I know exactly what you mean.
I try to do as much as I can as well but sometimes theres things you just can't do.
Although the part that really frustrates me is that no one can really tell me what is wrong with it.
The second shop checked over absolutely everything in the front end, and couldn't find anything really out of place, or that the first shop did wrong.
So what I think happened is that something was worn out, but not enough to make noise, and when the clutch got done, it got distrubed, causing it to make noise once reassembled, which would have happened regardless of where I took it.

I'm really hoping that replacing the struts will fix it, cause if not I'm kinda back to square one not knowing what is causing it.
Althought it will be quite the wait, because Ill have to ship the damaged strut back and wait for the new one to ship out which could take a while.

Although I contacted KYB and they said that the shaft could have dried out or developed some surface rust during shipping and that I should put a bit of lubricant or oil on the strut, and that may cause it to rebound normally again.
So I'm gunna try that tonight after work and hopefully that will do something, which would be really awesome if that did solve the problem.

man sorry to hear that, hope you get the car in order =)

Thanks I hope so too haha.
As soon as the the rubber spring insulators get here i can atleast put one of the front stuts on, and then i would be able to tell if my problem is solve, cause the noise is coming from the passenger side.

I ordered them yesturday though, so it will be a couple of days.

Finally something good.
Contacted th seller of the struts and he's going to exchange them as long as i pay to ship the bad one back, but he's going to pay to ship the newone to me.

Awesome, more good news!
Toyota just called me and said that the spring insulators I ordered just arrived.
Mine were completely shot, and thats why I could only get the back struts on.
But now that they have arrived I can atleast get one front strut on, and then I just gotta wait for the last one to come in the mail.

Theres also a meet tonight close by, so if I can get it done by then I can atleast drive it there and back.

Well I should have saw this coming.
Put the new strut and spring insulator and mount on the passenger side which was the one making noise.
And sure enough, it still makes the sound.

I have no clue what it is.
Although the rotor on the passenger side can move in and out about 1/4" when the wheel is off, and the driver side doesn't move at all, so I'm thinking that may be the problem.

Any one got any ideas?
Help would be great.
Cause I have absolutely no clue what it could be.

So me and a buddy crawled under there today and were pretty determined to figure out what it was.
We pryed around at the bushings and didn't really find much and were pretty stumped.
So we put the wheel back on and dropped the car, and tried to make the car clunk again just by moving the wheel forward and back by hand.

We managed to make it clunk, so one of us clunked the wheel while the other looked, and we found that the rear bushing on the lower control arm was the culpret.
Everytime it would clunk, the lowere control arm was pivoting forward about an inch or so forward and back, so I guess when the break is applied it puts a force on the LCA which caused that clunk only at initial breaking.

I find this kind of odd, because the noise was not there before the clutch was replaced, and after it was one the clunk was present. I'm thinking mayb just having them working around the front end agitated the already worn out bushing enough to produce a noise.

The other thing that kind of pisses me off is that the second shop could not figure it out, because they said they checked all the bushings and that some were a little worn, but couldn't produce that noise, and made me go and change the struts and the axle. Now I know the struts needed to be changed, but to have to change the axle when it was not needed was quite the waste of money, so now I have a perfectly good axle sitting in my garage.

But on the other hand, i had been looking into the poly urethane bushings from gt4-racing.eu already, so now I have the chance to upgrade, and hopefully my car can be back on the road ASAP.

Thanks for everyones help, I appreciate it alot, I dunno what I'd do without 6GC.net, I've learned so much already ust from reading.

And If anyone is looking for a GT passenger side axle, I may sell it for the right price.

thats great that you found the problem =)

Yea, its too bad I had to dump all that cash into it, but at least it was fixing one thing that already needed to be done haha.

yea im going to have to get new suspension soon, thinking of progressive springs and new struts

I have the same problem with my 94. It's that bushing at the base of the rear adjustable control arm. Both sides clunk when I go over bumps. Dealer wants $300 for both sides, so I just have to come up with the money.

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I just called Toyota and its even more in Canda.
ITs 256 per side, for each control arm.
They don't sell teh bushings separately.

Your better off to just get the poly urethane bushings for 100 bucks, and put them in.
Even if you ahve to apy someone to do it, it will probably be cheaper than buying new control arms and installing them yourself.
I'm planning to get teh Poly urethane bushings, ASAP, and Ill try to put them in myself with a buddy.
It doesn't look too difficult

Does energy suspension make bushings for them? I would totally do that. That way I wouldn't have to get an alignment. I already have the bushings for the sway bars by energy.

I'm pretty sure they don't.
As far as I know there is only one person who makes them.
Theya re polyurethane bushings, so it will improve your suspension as well not just make it stock.
But I just ordered mine from here: http://www.gt4-racing.eu/index.php/toyota-...spension-bushes Because thats what most of the other members are using and I've heard good things.

And I couldn't find anywhere else that had them.