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Is It Possible To Get New Pillow Balls For My Coilovers?

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wixy

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Im experiencing some knocking noises from the rear of my car and i have been told it may be the pillow balls are worn on one or both of my rear coilovers.

I have Racing Gear JTC N1 coilovers which which are pretty rare and came from Japan.

I am just wondering if it would even be possible for me to replace the pillow balls. Where would i find some?

Ronin 09 Grand Master

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start by trying the suspension places - they'll point you in the right direction.

you will be able to replace them but they're probably not cheap.

i think you can get HKS pillow ball mounts from nengun or greenline by memory alos...

R31Nismoid Grand Master

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The knocking isnt anything bad

My coilovers have done it virtually since i got the car 2.5 years ago.

Its just because they wont have rubber on em like the factory ones.

No biggie unless you dont like sounds

Beer Baron Grand Master

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it usually is. I dont know what nismoid is on about, but they shouldn't knock, or squeak at all when everything is as it should be. not "having rubber on them" (where do you mean?) wont make them knock. I would look at getting them replaced if the rose joint is sloppy.

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R31Nismoid

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Maybe more poor information from another crap workshop here in melb :)

Centreline told me that it was ok if they were a bit noisy and wasnt of great concern...

But then they told me other things aswell that ive found out were a little "inaccurate" :D

Beer Baron Grand Master

Beer Baron

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yeah, they were probably just a tad lazy. i've had pillow ball upper mounts both without a piece of rubber between the upper srping seat and spring and with the rubber (I assume this is the bit you meant) and neither made knocking noises. I have on the other hand had coil overs that knocked and sure enough, removed the upper mount and the bearing was sloppy. got it repalced, noise went away. sometimes when the dampers are shot you get a very similar knocking noise too.

Beer Baron Grand Master

Beer Baron

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a dude here in sydney did it for me. He basically took it to a couple of bearing suppliers until one would take the time to find a match. then had the old one pressed out, and new one pressed in. the bearings are usualy in a steel housing which is then bolted to the alloy outer piece.

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