I too wish I had read this before I took it in for new strutts - guess at 200,000 it needed them. But got it back and still clunking - mechanic told me it was the link pins - you say end links - suppose we are talking about the same thing. See that it was loose on one side - and will try to fix it soon.
My son says it sounds like a Chicago taxi!
Are they hard to put on? I sprayed the loose one with some rust blaster before we took off on vacation and figured I work on it when I got back.
We didn't that that one.