Oh man,
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eddiebx
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Gabex35
you guys nailed it -- uniball. I happened to have a fresh bottle of triflow wet for my mountain bike, so I popped the uniball covers off, cleaned out the little bit of dirt that still magically got in there, and thoroughly coated the perimeter of the top of the joint... And drumroll please... within seconds the noise started to go away. It's now silent and I've learned a good maintenance tip from y'all.
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Deep_palancar
Great idea with the upper arm bushings but I gave those guys a major bath in grease when I installed them. Thanks for the troubleshooting help!
Again, thank you all for the help. Hopefully I've thrown enough search terms in here so someone else can find this in the future.
If not, seo bomb time: groan groaning creak creaking noisy turning steering steer parked still not moving suspension lift install icon uniball upper control arm UCA