Just got back home from this year's trip, and in the past few days Jane has developed a pretty outrageous squeak from the front left (driver's) corner.
It seems to only show up when the suspension is less loaded. If I stop the car and lean on the corner a few times, it will squeak and then settle and won't squeak for a long time. I think that when I am driving 80+ MPH, the front end of the car gets a little light (very windy in eastern NM and west TX). Then when I stop to get gas or something, every little turn or bump makes it squeak really loudly. Maybe the suspension is less compressed at that time? Then I lean on it and it stops squeaking, until the front end gets lifted up by wind again.
The squeak sounds very much like rubber, not metal-on-metal. It sounds loudest to me in the shock tower so probably somewhere in the vicinity of the spring? What could be squeaking like this, and is there any other area of the suspension in particular that I should be checking up on?
For reference, suspension components installed (all 2-3 yrs old except for one piece):
- Eaton GT coil springs, stock rubber insulator
- OT roller spring perches
- SoT adjustable strut rods
- OT blueprinted UCA
- Stock Moog LCA
- Bilstein street shocks
- 1&1/8" sway bar, poly bushings (possibly 20 years old)
It seems to only show up when the suspension is less loaded. If I stop the car and lean on the corner a few times, it will squeak and then settle and won't squeak for a long time. I think that when I am driving 80+ MPH, the front end of the car gets a little light (very windy in eastern NM and west TX). Then when I stop to get gas or something, every little turn or bump makes it squeak really loudly. Maybe the suspension is less compressed at that time? Then I lean on it and it stops squeaking, until the front end gets lifted up by wind again.
The squeak sounds very much like rubber, not metal-on-metal. It sounds loudest to me in the shock tower so probably somewhere in the vicinity of the spring? What could be squeaking like this, and is there any other area of the suspension in particular that I should be checking up on?
For reference, suspension components installed (all 2-3 yrs old except for one piece):
- Eaton GT coil springs, stock rubber insulator
- OT roller spring perches
- SoT adjustable strut rods
- OT blueprinted UCA
- Stock Moog LCA
- Bilstein street shocks
- 1&1/8" sway bar, poly bushings (possibly 20 years old)