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Suspension squeak

Fast68back

Fast68back

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The last few times I've driven the car I've noticed a fairly irritating squeak, it doesnt stay there, it goes away after maybe fifteen minutes or so but for the first fifteen minutes or so you hear it whenever you hit a bump. It reminds me of this squeak my dads old Falcon station wagon had every time we pulled into a parking lot or changed from one surface to another. Any ideas? All the suspension stuff is new. I was thinking maybe its the off-brand roller perches I bought during a VMF group buy about 6 years ago, maybe longer.
 
Sway bar bushings need to come off... grease both contact areas. If you got Energy Suspension bushings, then they should of came with a packet of grease.

And, you can always go roller LCAs. Do you have stock UCAs?
 
"hivewax" said:
Sway bar bushings need to come off... grease both contact areas. If you got Energy Suspension bushings, then they should of came with a packet of grease.

And, you can always go roller LCAs. Do you have stock UCAs?
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I have Meier racing uppers and lowers. They are worked over stock units. I'll lube up the sway bar bushing and see what that does.
 
You should look up getting some greaseable sway bar bushings.

http://www.google.com/products?q=greasable+sway+bar+bushings&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:eek:fficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=P8iXTN-UMMGBlAe_mtHUBQ&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CD4QrQQwAw

mine weren't greaseable when they came with the swaybar, so I drilled them and made channels in them with the dremel, and tapped in some grease fittings. I have no idea how well (if at all) they'll work. but if not I'll buy some of these later
 
I'd like a few reviews before buying those grease-able sway bar bushings. Sway bar is pretty tight up against the bushing and I can't see how grease is going to get in there.
 
The greasable urethane bushings have a series of small slots that run around the contact area so that the grease can get all the way around the bushing.
 
Glad you posted those Steve, didn't know they had them. I installed Energy polyurethane front/rear eye bushings in my new rear leafs and the small tubes they send with the kit weren't going to cut it for lubing them 'liberally' so I bought a large tube of dielectric grease (~$10) from O'Reilly's to lube them. I couldn't nail down the exact chemical contents of the poly lube and the dielectric as being the same but they are close, consistency, feel, smell, etc. were identical. I lubed them liberally and they worked perfect without a squeek for the year that I drove the car.

Rick you could do the swaybar bushings first and see if it cures the squeek and make your way down the list.
Jon
 
"stangg" said:
The greasable urethane bushings have a series of small slots that run around the contact area so that the grease can get all the way around the bushing.
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Correct. There is a main channel that runs around the curcmference of the busing, in the middle, and then little feeder channels that go almost all the way across. I carved something similar using my dremel. Don't know if they'll be as good as the real thing, but I figured it couldn't hurt, and is free to try.
 
"ko67" said:
If you will just put it back in the garage where it belongs it would not squeak.
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If I dont fix the squeak that's where it will stay, its almost as embarrassing as riding around in a red convertible with a lawyer behind the wheel and A$$ Pnder on his vanity plate...
 
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