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At least as of ~6 months ago, the Mopar bushings were thin nylon/plastic sleeve inside the rubber bushing design. 4743041AE is the part number I used.

 

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Thank you!

This seems to have solved most of my front end clunking. (2005 T&C Ltd)

I installed new KYB quickstruts SR4039 & SR4038, sway bar bushings (Mopar 4743041AE) and sway bar links (Moog K7258) a few months back. Was great at first, then slowly got noisy over ~4000 miles.

Tonight, I pulled the wiper tray, and checked the top nut on the KYB struts. Driver side had 3 full turns before it started to snug. Passenger side had 1 full loose turn. Tightened to 125 ft-lb. Quiet as a mouse.

I did not get a chance to look up the torque spec. Thinking if it gets loose again, it looks like I could put a backer nut on there, and use some red locktite to keep it secure.

Thanks again.

No good suggestions here on torquing the bottom link nut, but you can (well, I did) hit the strut rod center nut from above with an impact by removing the windshield wiper tray to get it out of the way.

Tried a lot of different ways to tighten that strut rod nut, but it's seemingly a pretty big PITA any other way as you have to both hold the center rod still while you crank on the nut. I had worked out a contraption for doing it manually on the factory struts, but KYB changed the nut size on their aftermarket struts so my old contraption was no good and my attempts at a new setup for the KYB nut size was a fail. That's when I finally got ticked off and used an impact directly... with a torque limiting extension.

Anyway, seemed to work pretty well using an impact with a deep well socket and "torque limiting" extension bar.

 

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Recently moved on to OEM assemblies (2AMST010AA), seemingly available for the 2005 to 2007 model years only,

Just to clarify, are those are full strut assemblies (aka quickstruts)?

I looked at those before ordering my KYBs, and asked vendors, but could not get details on left-right, bare strut vs assembly, etc.

The KYBs I installed have been quiet after I retorqued and used green loctite on the top center bolt. Granted it's only been 6 months. I was pretty alarmed by how loose they were (several full turns w/ no resistance) when I found them clunking.

Thanks