"John M." wrote:
>
> I just replaced the passenger side lower control arm bushings. I had them
> pressed in by a shop but all other work was done by me. I did this same job
> about 2.5 years ago with aftermarket bushings and I noticed they were failing
> about 6 months ago - get OEM!! Anyway, I digress. Just after I got things back
> together I drove about 10 miles into town to a shop to get my alternator fixed
> (It's been an expensive summer with these and other repairs.). My steering
> wheel was straight again and everything seemed fine. Then at about 6 miles I
> heard this strange noise (kind of a clunking) as I let off the gas to stop. Then
> when accelerating it went away.
> As I continued on the noise got much worse (and louder) and I could feel it
> in the steering wheel. It seemed to be coming from the driver's side (?) and it
> was correlated to wheel speed. The further I went the harder I had to
> accelerate to get it to go away.

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I did that once. The lug nuts on one wheel were loose.

Very red face. :-(

'Curly'