The winter seems to have my old truck bushings crying in protest,driving me mental.
Short of replacing(no time for that)any remedies that work?
Thanks.
The winter seems to have my old truck bushings crying in protest,driving me mental.
Short of replacing(no time for that)any remedies that work?
Thanks.
I had the compliance bushings on the old Rio go bad and make noise. I would spray them with WD40 and they'd be quiet for a few weeks. Did that for 6 months or so before replacing the control arms.
If you use silicone spray instead of WD40 you can be sure the chemicals you're spraying onto the bushings don't hasten their demise.
In reply to GameboyRMH :
I didn't have any and I was planning on replacing them when it got warmer (whcih I did) but good point
Old truck, like it still has grease nipples? More often any particularly irritating squeak is going to be from a dry joint, either ball, tie rod or sway bar link.
In reply to kevlarcorolla :
New enough that it's really unlikely that a bushing is making the noise. Can you produce the noise by turning the steering wheel? That will be a joint somewhere. Check for open boots. If it has to bounce, I'd start by looking at sway bar bushings.
If I were to guess, I'd look really hard at sway bar links.
No noise with turning the wheels,only with vertical movement and sure sounds like the back half.
No rear sway bar,I'll jack from the frame and spray the spring pack with the wheels in droop I guess just in case.
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