annoying squeak!!!! suggestions??? driver's front side

[jshawag12]

that sounds like a nice labor bill

 

[barebones 1500]

i think my brother got his done for like 150 on his 96 cavalier. he got the bushings himself though. call a couple of shops and see what they would charge. i hate having shops work on my cars but sometimes it is worth it

 

[jshawag12]

well my FIL has a shop, and he does parts at cost but of course has to do labor and i dont want anything for free from him unless he wants me to help him do something around the house

 

[Nuke]

Subbing because I have the same prob.

 

[jshawag12]

same mech problem?

 

[barebones 1500]

you could take it to a shop and have them hunt it down, but they will probably tell you that you need a bunch of crap that you don't. one time i took my old exploder in for an alignment and they would not do it. they said it needed all 4 ball joints and then i told them they were not even 1 week old. spent 35 a piece on moog ball joints. he swore that with his 20+ years experience they were all bad, i quipped back with "suck it and fetch my truck". best part was when he pulled it out of the garage it stalled on him, he tried telling me that it needed to be looked at then i jumped in it, fired it up then broke'em loose. or you could hunt for the squeak and see what you find

sorry for the long post, just popped into my head and i had to share

 

[bump530]

i have the same problem at the same wheel. i just replaced ball joints, tie-rod ends, idler arm, pitman arm, springs and shocks about 3 months ago. and as far as i know it just started doing it recently

 

[jshawag12]

thanks for all your help barebones i am still gonna try and find it myself...get my wife or kid to jump on it while i'm underneath....

bump...it does sound like the exact problem i got....why don't they just replace the bushings if they are gonna take all that crap off (this wasnt my FIL shop)...they are cheap...but i guess its another way to make money

 

[99z28monster]

You can do the bushings on your own however it can be a pita. You have a lot of suspension parts to take off and it can turn into a head ache fast if yo do not know what you are doing. I would suggest first making sure that is the issue, if it is buy the bushing and pay a shop to do the install. It should not cost to much for them to do it. Yet if something falls apart later it is on the shop and not you.

 

[daddy_dandy]

Experiencing the same thing except on the passenger side. I jacked the truck up last weekend and there's about 3/4" of up and down play in the wheel and I can make the upper control arm smack the inner fender wall. Definitely a bushing issue. Instead of taking the truck to a shop (since I only have one vehicle) I'm going to a yard, buy all 4 control arms, clean them up and paint them with POR-15. Then I'm going to get some poly bushings and have a machine shop press them in. After that, should just be a solid afternoon install then off to the alignment shop.