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Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 1,166
Real Name: Robert');DROP TABLE Students;
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 1,166
Real Name: Robert');DROP TABLE Students;
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Godawful creak at full steering lock?
This afternoon I've started getting a really bad creak or groan at full steering lock (usually), both ways, and in forward and reverse. I can feel it through the steering column, and it''s easiest to replicate on when stopped on pavement, wheel hard over, then give it a little gas as if I'm pulling into a parking spot kind of aggressively. It doesn't seem to do it when just letting the engine idle moving it. It's done it a couple of times with the wheels partially turned and when driving over a bump.
All four balljoints (OEM lower, SPC upper) are 2yrs/~15k miles or less, same for ITREs and passenger OTRE. The boot was torn on the driver OTRE so I replaced it this evening thinking that might be the issue, but no.
Alignment cams don't appear to have shifted, but I'm going for an alignment tomorrow afternoon anyway. Steering rack shows no signs of moving in the bushings (poly, replaced last fall), took the swaybar off entirely this afternoon just in case that might have been it. Everything I've put a wrench on is tight.
Any ideas?
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2001 SR5 - Like OEM, only worse (gears, e-locker, armor)
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