It has about 175k miles on it, and my sister bought it recently. I replaced the shocks with bilstien HDs recently, and at first it was fine, but now anytime you go over a bump the rear of the truck flops side to side enough to shake the whole truck and keeps doing it anytime the road isn't completely smooth. Nothing appears to be loose, but I am replacing the swaybar bushings this weekend since they are worn looking anyway. Any other ideas what might be wrong?
I'd lay some eyes and a pry bar on the panhard bar and control arm bushings, seen a few that separated quite badly.
You can also likely get it to reveal itself by strongly push/pull on the rear in the driveway. Wagging it side to side. Stay in tune and get it to build.
I think I probably found the problem. The rear shocks were changed by a shop (its kinda rusty underneath so for $75 it was worth it), but the top of the drivers side shock is loose. I can't figure out how to tighten it, but it can go back to the shop and have them do it. Hopefully that will fix the problem.
Travis_K wrote: I think I probably found the problem. The rear shocks were changed by a shop (its kinda rusty underneath so for $75 it was worth it), but the top of the drivers side shock is loose. I can't figure out how to tighten it, but it can go back to the shop and have them do it. Hopefully that will fix the problem.
The top nut is in that plate you see the shock going into. There's no access from inside the car so you get to drop the spare tire (for room to work) and stick a ratchet above that plate. The nut is 19mm IIRC. The rear shocks are a pain in the ass in the third gen 4Runners.
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