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My Mustang is making a clunking sound. I first thought u-joints. I replaced those and still have the noise. I put the car up on jack stands and started it up. The noise is coming from the rearend twisting upward. Is the rearend the problem or is it the control arms. The car does have 230,000 miles on it. Still runs like a raped ape.
 

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When does it clunk? Is it when you're taking off after a stop or is it more over bumps? Or is it when you launch it hard? Are there any vibrations at speed?
I have some major deflection in my control arm bushings that causes a clunk over bumps and the driveshaft to hit the floor when I launch it (soon to be R&R'd). If the car has that many miles and you are still running stock arms and bushings, its high time you change those out, they're likely all cracked and rotted. If the gears were worn bad enough to clunk, I would think that it would be accompanied by lots of other noises like whining and vibrations. Only other things to check would be to make sure the sway bar is in good shape and the bolts are tight, and the shock mounts are tight as well.
 
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the rear sway bar in a new steeda piece i bought last year cause the stock piece broke. I can actually see the rear twist upward while it was on jackstands. There are no vibrations that i know of. I had it up to about 95 mph today. The clunk is on exceleration in every gear. Just when it goes into gear.
 
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Had to go back and read your post. the shocks were replaced about two years ago.
 

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Deffinetly check your control arm bushings and replace as needed. While you're under there, its very unlikely to be the case unless the car has been run hard with drag slicks, but check to see it the torque boxes are cracked at all around the welds. I doubt that would be the case but it happens to be that, its a potentially dangerous situation that should be rectified sooner than later.
 
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