Squeak from hell
Squeak from hell
The passenger front suspension squeaks like there is no tomorrow. I have put penetrating oil on everything that moves, and it wont go away!
thanks in advance,
Eric
yea mine squeeks too... oh well lol ill get around to fixing it eventually.
as long as it dosent bind and break my shit im fine lol
(09-21-2011, 07:25 PM)larsalan Control arm bushings?
(09-21-2011, 07:25 PM)larsalan Control arm bushings?
Mine was squeaking were the bolt goes through the upper bushings. Could never see that was a problem because it's conciled in the control arm.
Also takes a while to swap them out because you have to move a few nuts and boltstp get in there.
Might could spray some wd40 with a straw in there and diagnose an issue.
Doesn't that UCA bolt rust to hell? I remember seeing that on a Mercedes Source video.... Might want to check that before it breaks!
Mine the bolt was just some rust on the surface but the rubber and metal of the bushing was pretty well disintegrated.
There's a pic of it in my first car thread here.
I assume you can make it squeek by bouncing on it? Support LCA and see if it still squeeks (takes balljoint out of equation). I assume you have verified its not the LCA strut support bearing on firewall (sound would be on firewall not front part).
(09-23-2011, 10:03 AM)winmutt I assume you can make it squeek by bouncing on it? Support LCA and see if it still squeeks (takes balljoint out of equation). I assume you have verified its not the LCA strut support bearing on firewall (sound would be on firewall not front part).
(09-23-2011, 10:03 AM)winmutt I assume you can make it squeek by bouncing on it? Support LCA and see if it still squeeks (takes balljoint out of equation). I assume you have verified its not the LCA strut support bearing on firewall (sound would be on firewall not front part).
Yeah i can make it squeak by bouncing on the passenger side up and down. it seems to be near the LCA, so is it a good possibility that it could use a new set of rubber bushings? 208,xxx... and i dont think much of anything has been replaced. (besides regular maintenence)
When I put the UCA bushings in they needed to be ground down about 1mm or so. Just a heads up. I tried to fight them in place for about 30 min before coming to that conclusion but, ymmv.
I agree with the control arm bushings diagnosis. I really thought it was a squeaky shock too. About month ago I replaced the control arm and the old bushings just fell apart. Squeak for me no longer.