ok guys i took the t bird out last night for a drive wit soem friends and it snowed a little and there was water on teh road after driver for a while i notice squeeking on the passenger side ... the suspention is new but i didnt have teh squeek before. what can i do to take teh squeeking out? can i put grease on the rubber were the spring sits?? help guys
my driverside fender and door sqeek. you could prolly tighten someting up b/c its prolly due to something not as tight as possible.
no its not teh fender its the spring cause when i turn it squeeks and i checked the fender and door and its nice and tight.
I had a squeek like that,but on the driver side.It was the little rubber bumper connected to the hood hinge.I turned it in a little and the squeek was gone.
im not sayin its a fender or door, im sayin its more like a bolt in the the new suspension not torqued to spec. every bolt has a torque spec, and i know we all dont have access to alldata or even a torque wrench. just go through your suspension and make sure everything is tight and not overtightened. but yeh, there are a million things other than the suspension that could squeek
0o0o ok gotcha.. thanks again ima check it out and put some white grease on some things
easy to find the problem. minus all speculations
get a can of wd-40
plan out a good days drive with lots of turns , stops and corners.
saturate one suspension connection at at time and listen for the squeek.
if its still there, stop and spray a new part
when the noise goes away, you found your problem.
better have a couple cans of wd just incase.
you got that right :)
yeah is it ok for me to put grease on the sway bar bushings on were they sit on the bar??? or leave it dry?? cuz this squeek is annoying
if thats where the squeek is,, sure, do it.
no ,, wait,,, hold on,,,,,,,,,
no you cant, putting grease on a rubber bushing will cause a heat transfer effect at the molecular level that will increase adverse effects of electron exchange (ie-rubber to metal friction) and therefore creating a magnetic field that could likely interfere with your TFI, TPS, cellphones , ipod and spark, not to mention the added increase in risk to your fuel lines catching on fire.
humm.... maybe its not worth the risk
o00o .. well thanks for the VERY good info on that. what about puttin some grease on the stabilizer end links but on the rubber parts?
I put a bushing kit in my car. They had me use silcone greese. You can buy it in a spray can. Either that or White Lithium that way the greese stays put. Also do you have the spring Isolators on the bottom of the spring where it goes into the arm?
o0o i just bought thet white lithium and i was using that. yes i have the spring isolaters. but the squeek is on the passenger side and i sprayed it earlier. The noise went away a little .. maybe in the moring it will be more set in.
my wife says that if she gets smacked for my carma,, then im gonna pay big time.
so.......
you did know i was just kidding ,, right:D
,,yes you can put grease on bushings.
yeh, just to clearify, potrolium products eats rubber. like potrolium based grease and oil. i basically disolves it. you can however use greases or water displacents (like WD40) i dunno about the rubber bushings making a flux magnetic field, or even making one large enough to disrupt sensors in the engine... but hey maybe so. but yeh, that WD40 day trip is something that sounds promising.