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    with those miles, i'd change the lower mounts for sure. engine and tranny mounts.

    then you want to go over the front end, jack the car up wheel still tight, then push and pull from the 9 and 3 o clock positions, if the wheel moves, the tir rods are bad. then take the wheel off, and look at your lower control arm bushings, if they are all torn up you need new lca's, they come with new bushing and a new ball joint, for about 40 a side, rather cheap.

    while the wheel is off check the sway bar end links and the end of the bar for cracks, or if its snapped off, as well as the bushings to the frame where the bar is bolted down. thats a good clunk as well if its bad.

    has the tranny ever been serviced? hows the fluid look? red still? or brown and burnt smelling?

    if the fluids not black and cooked up, you can do a pan drop and filter change, the filter maybe clogged and causing the whine you hear from the driver side. (do not have it flushed)

    check the p/s fluid as well, it could be low and causing the whine.

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    Okay so I wasn't able to get to the power steering fluid but I am pretty confident that is not the culprit. I did take a look at the trans fluid and it is brown, but could brown trans fluid really be making this noise? I played with it a bit more just now (going forwards to backwards to forwards again) in the driveway and I am really starting to think it is an engine mount or the axle...
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