Creaking in rear
Creaking in rear I tried searching for an answer to this, but have had no luck.
My car creaks in the rear almost any point during movement, it's worse over bumps or pulling into driveways, but you can hear it when you just begin to accelerate and the rear end squats a little.
I've tried putting lithium grease on every bushing I could find, and it didn't help. The only thing I can think of at this point would be shocks (98 model with 101k on it, stock suspension).
Am I missing something obvious?
My car creaks in the rear almost any point during movement, it's worse over bumps or pulling into driveways, but you can hear it when you just begin to accelerate and the rear end squats a little.
I've tried putting lithium grease on every bushing I could find, and it didn't help. The only thing I can think of at this point would be shocks (98 model with 101k on it, stock suspension).
Am I missing something obvious?
I had a squeaking coming from the rear end that I could not pin down. Thought it was the hatch latch, heard someone else say they fixed it with the hatch shocks, etc. Turned out it was the spare tire/jack assembly. Of course I found out the hard way (using the spare). So if its the same squeaking that I had, take out the spare. It's not full size anyways. Later
Thanks for the replies. 
The spare and everything is tightened down, I'm almost certain it's the suspension. I moved the car around a bit while laying under it and it sounded most audible from the passenger side wheel. I think I will try greasing the sway bar bushings up tomorrow to see if it helps any.
The spare and everything is tightened down, I'm almost certain it's the suspension. I moved the car around a bit while laying under it and it sounded most audible from the passenger side wheel. I think I will try greasing the sway bar bushings up tomorrow to see if it helps any.
I greased up the bushings with white lithium grease tonight and it seems to have fixed the problem.
I guess for what it's worth, you don't really have to pull the swaybar off, but I did. It would probably be easier not to.
I guess for what it's worth, you don't really have to pull the swaybar off, but I did. It would probably be easier not to.
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Rear sway barbushing are squeaking. My car started to do it. My car is a 98 Z has 60,000 miles on it. I'm going to replace mine cause I lube them on my other F-body and still squeak, replaced them and the noise was gone.
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Verdad Gallardo Just for knowledge sake...I run a lube shop and I greased my sway bar bushings with regular lithium grease, and the squeak was horrible...took them back off and reapplied the ENERGY Suspension pre lube and it was like No noise anymore.....I'll never Not use a marine grade grease on poly bushings again.
