Just bought a "new to me" 2004 Ram 1500 Quad Cab 4x4 with 5.7 Hemi. It only has 114k miles on it. I have had it for about a week and have noticed a noise in the front end when I turn. It doesen't have to be turned to full lock, and seems to be worse the faster I make the turn. The truck has stock suspension and a worn out set of BFG mud tires size 255/70r17. I have owned a lot of 4x4's with over sized tires and this noise sound just like the tire rubbing the wheel well and/or frame rail, but these little tires aren't nowhere close enough to anything to rub. I have crawled under and given it a good visual inspection, nothing seems out of the ordinary, had the wife turn the steering lock to lock while I was under, everything looked and sounded fine, I walked beside the truck and watched/listened as she drove forward and turned back and forth-nothing!!! I haven't had time to jack it up and check it out yet, but that is coming this weekend (my weekend is Mon & Tue, I have to work on Sat & Sun) Any suggestions on what I might check or look for would be great. All I could find in my search for front end noise was squeeks and pops, but nothing like this. Has anyone else had this problem??

 

check your CV axles joints

 

then check your bearings.

I had a noise like a mud-flap getting pulled up into the tire treads...
It wasn't that, but rather a wheel bearing

 

the boots appear in good conditon, but I didn't grab the to check for slack, but I will.

That sounds like the same noise I am getting. I will definatly give them a good check.

 

I have a "01" dodge ram 1500 v8magnum 2wd had about the same prob + it was hard to turn & had 1 hell of a squeaking frtend noise , took it to a good shop that i trust to have it ck'ed was told lower ball joints where the prob. Since then i have drilled out all 4 ball joints man what a pain > my post on this replacing Ball Joints all was good till bout 2 weeks ago started hearing a pop in a full Rt -r- Lt turn & real hard braking come to find out the drivers side lower was defective not 1 time not 2 times but 3 in one day, i had bought the O Reilly Auto house brand and ended up going with the more pricey Moog witch fixed the problem then i started hearing a real strange noise like someone dragging a piece of sheet metal across the road come to find out that the backing plate behind the rotor had got bent out of shape when i used the ball joint separator to pop them out .after getting both sides straight all quite ! hope this helps