sdotlog

I have relaced springs, shocks, upper/lower balljoints, and swaybars on my imp. It has squeaked before and is still there. it's coming from the drivers front. It's driving me crazy. I'm going to try a d-squeak when i get the car back from having the motor dropped in. New parts were put in and lubed up. Any ideas?

z28bryan

iTrader: (7)

I had an evident squeak coming from my poly swaybar d-bushings. They needed grease.

sdotlog

Hmm the squeaking was there before all the suspension upgrades. everythings greased. Hmm stumped.

TransAmdriv3r

iTrader: (10)

what about upper control arm bushings ????

sdotlog

You know what I was thinking it had something to do with the upper control arm. The car is in the shop right now but I'm sure there isn't a grease fitting there?

TransAmdriv3r

iTrader: (10)

looking on a picture on eBay, it doesn't look like there is any grease fittings. youll have to see if you can spay some red grease in there or something, don't use wd40 it has silicone and drys out the bushings.

~greg

sdotlog

Cool. I'll give it shot. Hopefully it solves the annoying squeaking.

sdotlog

ughh.... ok so i replaced the upper/lower front control arms bushings. still squeaking? wtf? getting irritated and its making my car sound raggedy coming down the street.

BigT2002

iTrader: (2)

I'll just state the obvious.....are you sure everything was bolted up tightly?? I know I had an issue with my rear passenger because we didn't get the shock tightened all the way

sdotlog

Yea Imade sure everything was tightened down. Onnly thing left are the bilstein shocks. I found out they're notorious for squeaking.

sdotlog

err... It's the front shocks squeaking. I took em apart greased up the bushings and still squeak. im guessing the 1" lower bottomed out the threads so I'm going to add a few washers on each of the shocks then gun the nut down. It just doesnt seem like the bushings are being compressed. Hopefully I can fix it tomorrow.

BigT2002

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Let me know if that fixed it. I have the same shocks and my rear driver side is doing that.

sdotlog

fixed the squeaking... not sure if thats the same issue for your rear shock though.