I just installed Koni's, Epics, and the Whiteline top hats in the front of my 07 LGT wagon (already had Whiteline sway bar and Moog endlinks on it) and while test driving it and driving it home from my mechanic's place (about a mile), it made all manner of loud chunks and thunks and springs and sproings and just general loudness--nothing like what I imagine the widely reported squeaking problem seems to be. Like the springs themselves, we're pretty unsettled by all of it. Or is this alarming degree of bonging and boinging normal?
We didn't have time to do the rears today, but tomorrow morning we're doing Koni's and Epics in the rear (already have the WL sway, AVO RSB mount, and Moog endlinks back there), but my mechanic and I feel like there's no way that the fronts should be clunking and thunking this much, so we're reluctant about making things even worse by tackling the rear before we get the front sorted out.
We can't find anything that seems loose, upside down, backwards, out of tolerance, etc., and we're pretty much stumped.
Might something somewhere need a jerry-rigged spacer or something?
Any ideas, advice, reassurance, recommendations, etc.?