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squeaky coil spring
my front right coil spring is very sqeaky and i was wondering if there was anything i could do to help this since i have to drive down 2 miles of dirt road everyday
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Re: squeaky coil spring
There may be a piece of rubber that works as an isolater. After a while, the rubber will deteriorate or wear in two. You will need to split the a arms. On my truck, I didn't have to compress the spring, I just ran a ratchet strap through the center for safety. I jacked the truck up, put it on a stand, put the floor jack under the lower a arm, raised the jack until it just was about to lift the truck off the stand, loosened the lower ball joint bolt, whacked it with a hammer til it came loose, then let the jack down til I could pull the spring.
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Re: squeaky coil spring
I've pulled apart 3 front ends and have yet to find a rubber isolator and none of them squeaked. Have you liberally greased both ball joints and both ends of each a-arm? Just for good measure hit the inner and outer tie rod ends.
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Re: squeaky coil spring
anothe thing to check is the shock absorber mount//the stud thru the frame rail will loosen up elongating the hole allowing movement and squeaking
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Re: squeaky coil spring
It has been a while since I have had a 72 front end apart, but my Malibu had isolators front and rear.
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Re: squeaky coil spring
i greased everything posible today and it steal sqeaked loud. i felt the spring as i would push down on the hood and it felt as if the noise was coming from the coil itself
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Re: squeaky coil spring
Did you check the bushings on the lower control arms? They're probably dry-rotted.
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Re: squeaky coil spring
If it's still a stock spring it fits so tight it's not likely to be the cause of the squeak. More likely is ball joint, control arm, sway bar or shock mount bushings. Hit em one at a time with water or wd40 then bounce it a bit to see when the squeak stops then you'll find the source.
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Re: squeaky coil spring
They are steel. Dry rotting is for rubber bushings.
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Re: squeaky coil spring
I would bet the farm it is a shock, or a control arm bushing
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Re: squeaky coil spring
I was having the same issue as well, not only do I believe my control arms were rotted but, once I dropped the coil spring out I had found that a coil had actually broke off of the spring. That leads me to believe that it may also have been the source with the two coils rubbing against one another.
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Re: squeaky coil spring
i put new shocks on and it still is loud as ever
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Re: squeaky coil spring
is it a squeak or more like a ringing sound like it would sound if you hit the spring with a hammer but very fant mine has about the same thing and i can't find it ether mine didn't show up until i lowered the truck by cutting the spring
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