Front End Clatter

I’d add to the above comment by saying that some bushes supplied had a steel inner sleeve which can knock against the mounting pin. The bushes should just be rubber with no extra metal parts.
 
Try the pins going through the brake callipers and pads, I had a very low rattle type noise at low speed in rough car parks etc and it was the pins.
 
Try the pins going through the brake callipers and pads, I had a very low rattle type noise at low speed in rough car parks etc and it was the pins.
Good suggestion. This sounds different than pin rattle, but, I will check it out. Thank you.
 
Good suggestion. This sounds different than pin rattle, but, I will check it out. Thank you.
With the wheel on and on lock you can rock the car forward and back gently and stick your ear round there, I could see mine moving in time with the noise. Changed the pins now all good.
 
If you have Gaz shocks on the front then they will rattle. The aftermarket brigade use a different mounting to the Rover original. The Rover mounting uses two rubber conical rubber bushes that are compressed tightly in a double conical mount on the ends of the shock absorber, the bushes are compressed by putting the split pin in the inner hole of the mounting pin on the lower end, and by tightening a nut on the upper end.
After market shocks use a parallel mount with a steel sleeve, there is no way to make this mount tight on the pin, they rattle and will drive you nuts.

I cured the problem on my AVO shocks by cutting off the mounts, and then welding on the proper mounts cut from a set of old front dampers and returning to the OEM conical rubber mounts.

I have a set of old dampers for sale with the correct mounts that I saved for this purpose.
 
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