solved my creaking
solved my creaking just thought id share my experience. I have poly/rod LCAs and PHB, and poly swaybar bushings. MFers are loud when they start to talk. normally once every couple months I pull everything off and give it a good lubing, marine grease, used anti seize for my swaybar bushings, graphite for rod ends, whatever I have read that may work... usually would quiet it down enough to make it worth my while. this time I was lazy and picked up some wd40 white lithium grease. decided to only take my tires off and leave all suspension as is and just spray at the joints. i hit everything i thought was making noise (this time was bad because i hadn't been under there due to time/physical constraints). and i gotta say it shut everything up and was way less work than removing everything and doing each piece individually. only been a couple days, but i don't remember it ever being this quiet, even with stock.
Hopefully that lasts for you. I had the same issue as you and went through several brands of synthetic non-oil based lubes and never had any luck. They would only last maybe a week if that then would get super loud again. I tried this bushing lube from polybushings.com and this is the stickiest, stringiest, and messiest stuff I've ever worked with but it has lasted for a year now without any noise from any of my poly joints! I would highly recommend this stuff!
Make sure you don't use anything but a quality synthetic grease on the polyurethane bushings as it could potentially cause them to soften and make noise. Out of all the different greases I have personally used I have always found that Green Grease worked the best for me. The rod ends shouldn't need any lubrication unless they are super cheap because the majority of rod ends out their used for suspension parts have teflon liners in them which keeps everything moving freely.
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I've been looking at a few of your suspension products. So how prominent of a noise are we talking here and how often do polyurethane bushings need greasing?
So double rod ends will eliminate noises?
So double rod ends will eliminate noises?
Make sure you don't use anything but a quality synthetic grease on the polyurethane bushings as it could potentially cause them to soften and make noise. Out of all the different greases I have personally used I have always found that Green Grease worked the best for me. The rod ends shouldn't need any lubrication unless they are super cheap because the majority of rod ends out their used for suspension parts have teflon liners in them which keeps everything moving freely.
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I've read that yellow teflon tape wrapped between the bars and bushings will stop the squeaks pretty much forever. The yellow tape is designed for use with gas pipe fittings and is impervious to oil and grease. I just replaced the bars on my C5 coupe with larger bars and used the tape. Too soon to tell if it's going to work long term but it's doing the job now.
The elastomer bushings are a nice mix between the rubber and poly bushings. I think once we have them released and are advertising them they will be popular. If anybody is interested in the elastomer bushings just call me directly and I can help you out with them.
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