My truck makes a noise when I turn the wheel or hit a bump.It also does it if I push down on the front end.Its like a spring or metal rubbing sound.Like an old bed or something.Any ideas on what this is? Its been this way a while but it stills steers fine and its not loose or anything.

 

probably just a spongy spring...put some 1 ton coils in.

 

Make sure all your shock nuts are secure. Bottom shock mount is supposed to be torqued down to 100 foot pounds. That can cause a popping, rattling sound.

 

Could it be a noisy bushing that needs to be greased

 

+ 1 on the bottom shock bolts , had the same prob ,torqued with impact gun , and a few days later came loose again, on my truck i was able to lean over the tire and look down at the bottom of shock and move the truck up and down and see it was loose making the noise

 

does it sound like this - squeek squeek squeek.

on drivers side, under the truck, follow the auto trans shifter linkage down from the column to where the up/down motion changes to back/forth motion on a Z rod. on the end of the Z rod are nylon bushings that wear out. you can replace them or just grease up up in wheel bearing grease (what i did).

i helps to have an assistant pushing on the truck while you crawl under it to follow the noise.

 

so descriptive lol....




how are the shocks anyways? a blown shock could cause it maybe. when i bought my truck all 4 shocks were toast and when i hit bumps id hear clunks and she bounce back and forth for like 3 minutes lol.

 

just trying to help

 

Torque the hell out of the lower shock absorber bolts. When they are lose they rattle/bang/squeak, etc.. See if that helps. I made new sleaves and bushings for my shocks because every MFG makes them too small to fit properly.

If not, pull the shocks and take it for a drive. If the noise goes away, that's the culprit.

 

i know you were lol...I'm not bashing



shocks are very cheap...i got the mid-grade Monroe's for mine (sensatrack i think) and for all four it was only 120-130 bucks.