rayman1031

I haven't had a chance to inspect what's going on but hopefully in the meantime, you guys can give me some insight as to what's going on. My front driver side suspension is squeeking like a mofo. Imagine an old mattress when you bounce on it and it goes squeek... this is about 10x that noise. I'm lowered on prokit and tokico blues. Could my strut be blown? Thanks

97BlackAckCL

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Could be your strut, also if you have a 97 there was a control arm/ball joint recall. I have squeaking on stock suspension, I will be getting this checked out, before i lower my car.

npchottboi

i have the same damn problem with my 99 3.0 on teh driver side. I cant find where it's coming from and im on a prokit with tokico's tooo....and its only coming from the driver side.

starboy2nv

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i had this problem as well, but it went away so i dunno wtf it was...

Acura2.3CL

Have you been lowered for some time, or was it recent? Sounds like a blown strut. I wouldnt think it would be something interferring with the control arm, because a prokit drop isnt too agressive, but you never know.

ShavedH22CL

I had this problem and it was my bushings so i got the energy suspension hyperflex kit no more noise. its like 99 bucks on ebay and its every single bushing for the front of the suspension

97BlackAckCL

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Did you have to pay a shop to machine press the bushings in?

ShavedH22CL

No me and my mechanic did it in my garage. it just takes a long time thats the hardest part. i have never heard of what u are talkin about. Having a machine shop press the bushings in??

97BlackAckCL

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There was a thread a while back where someone was getting sway bars, and said that 2 of the rubber pushings needed pressed in with a machine I bought the exact same kit you mentioned, so I was just wondering what if any needed pressed, apparently they don't.

Rious16

I just got my 97 Cl and I had the same prob. it turned out that the car was hit on the passager side in the front and when they replaced the bumper they put it on wrong so no the metal is rubbin metal and making that annoyin squeekin sound. I'm gonna take it off so and fix it but for now i'll deal with it.

ShavedH22CL

unless i f**ked it up haha j/k no i didnt need any machine but some of them were a bitch to get in.

rayman1031

i've been lowered for about half a year and the springs/shocks were bought used. i jacked the car up, took off the wheel, and inspected the thing but i couldn't tell if anything was wrong. after i put everything back, the squeek was gone I tried driving around and everything seemed fine now. what's going on

ShavedH22CL

it may come back. that happened to me for a few months before i decided i cant stand this shit anymore and ordered bushings.

Myxomatosis

ok, digging up a thread here. I've got squeaking problems too. all 4 corners. I lowered a month ago, on KYB's. The squeaks started last week. I doesnt sound like metal on metal, but more of something rubbing on rubber. I used the rubber(washers?) that were on the original struts, (the band between the bottom of the spring and the strut). To me it sounds like that is making the noise, but I'm not sure. any ideas, that fact that all 4 corners are doing it, makes me think I did something wrong.

Tehvine

Well as a possible solution, the rubber bushings on the control arms may be squeaking. I just replaced my front uppers and my pass side is squeaking because i don't think it is tight enough.

Myxomatosis

yeah, I'm gonna have to jack her up and test everything. This is a pretty bad time of the year for this, but it could be worse.

97BlackAckCL

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This is the perfect time, get it fixed b4 winter

bigT

^^^I couldnt agree with your avatar more BlackAck^^^Sorry, just had to say something, even if it is the wrong place.

Myxomatosis

ok, so I just got home from work and immediately got to it. I couldnt find the source by jacking it up or pulling on components, so I decided to spray everything with lithium grease(bushings,balljoints).

Then put the wheel back on and had my wife push down on the car a couple dozen times. The sound was still there, but quieter, I must also add that I sprayed the top and bottom of the spring as well.

It sounds like rubber squishing, with some creaking as well. The strut isn't leaking as well. It sounds like the upper strut mount. any ideas?

and yeah I need it fixed asap, the temp is supposed to drop into the 40's(highs) by friday.

thanks for looking.

Myxomatosis

thought I'd update, the noise went away, which I guess is good. I think it was the original rubber "gaskets" between the springs and shocks, that were making all the racket, the grease quieted it down.

Alas I have a new problem the check engine light came on while I was having some fun with an RX-8 on a back road. Turns out it's, "low egr flow" Great, I love emmisions based problems, especially in the late fall. Might take this one to my mechanic.

DaInFaMMuS1

just clean out your egr valve and you should be ok. If you're do for an oilchange too, i'd seafoam the car and see if that'll clean it out and then change the oil.

Myxomatosis

thx, it's just too cold, I spent last fall doing this very thing with my old car, so I got an appt with my mech tomorrow to check it out. If it had done this even two weeks ago, I'd be all over it.

shnee

just to give another account of squeaking:
Mine shows up every now and then, and it was doing it horribly sort of recently - just when we started getting cold days.
Like I've done before, I jacked up the side, sprayed every bushing and rubber piece on that side with some silicone lube, and that was that. Usually that fixes it within a day or two, but it still squeaked for about a week or two. But it has finally disappeared again.
So if you are getting bad squeaking, spray that shit down with silicone. Make sure you don't hit your brakes or rotors.