Front end clunk... Anyone tried these ?

[June]

Though this is a old post, my S80 had the exact clunk as described in the first post. I replaced everything including the rack with no avail until this year when I had new frame bushings, bolts, and washers installed. Finely the clunk is gone. So +1 for frame bushings. June

[bmdubya1198]

I'm assuming you mean the subframe bushings fail after 120k and are hard to replace? Is that correct?

Also I read another thread today from a guy who replaced his xc70 sway bar with one from an xc90. He said he had a noise he couldn't find and could also see where something was hitting the control arm. After rebuilding his suspension, he still had the noise. So, are you saying that the noise in his case is likely caused by subframe bushings?

Yes, the subframe bushings usually begin to fail around that time and are a pain to replace. I just recently installed the iPd inserts in my V70R while I was reinstalling the subframe after installing the M56.

Usually if you have a clunking noise that almost sounds like something stretching, it's probably the SF bushings. Although if something if hitting the control arm, I would look into that first.

[Daveliz99]

Did you happen to do a write up or any notes on the M56 install? I'm assuming you swapped from an automatic it sounds like.

[bmdubya1198]

Did you happen to do a write up or any notes on the M56 install? I'm assuming you swapped from an automatic it sounds like.

Yup, I swapped from a dead AW55 5 speed auto to the M56. I don't have any writeup for mine, but PolskamafiaMJL made a great one: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=70637.
I also used a couple other threads from Volvospeed as well as some critical thinking to work through this swap, because I had to do a few things differently to make the FWD transmission work in the AWD chassis, namely the side transmission mount.