Front Suspension Squeaking

[crushnut]

I recently noticed that my driver side front suspension is making a high pitched squeaking sound, its pretty loud. It only does it if you barely push down on that corner and pretty much all of the time when i drive. But it doesnt do it at all if you push down really hard and let it spring back up, no squeak then. What could be causing this, and what should i look into?

All opinions and ideas are appreciated, Thanks.

 

[slapper]

Upper control arm bushings are the usual cause.

 

[chepsk8]

Yup, upper bushings. Grease them now, or it's a fun job to pull the upper arm and rebuild / replace!

You have the dreaded, yet famous......."FORD SQUEAK"

 

[rbohm]

lube the upper arm bushings. if they sieze the shock towers will flex, and eventually crack. the other thing that causes squeaking is the lower coil spring mount bushing.

 

[SuperDave]

Agree about uper control arm bushings. Often there is no provision for lubricating them and the only satisfactory fix is to install "lubeable" bushings. I did this years ago and haven't had a problem since.

 

[Mr44666]

A problem that I found on my car was that the area where the lower control arm mounts was rubbing the control arm due to bottoming out. This is a pretty easy fix, just bend it out.
Kind of strange, I've never seen anyone else complain about this. But It's worth a check.

-Dave

 

[crushnut]

I figured the control arms were to blame, I'll lube them up and see if it solves the problem. If not, ''I'll Be Back''

 

[ARTTII]

S - Q - U - E - E - E -E - E - E - E - A - K!
I also just read this thread; and felt a sudden urge to activate and account to reply to this one. I bought new UCA's from PST, they squeaked from day one, it became such an agrevation that I would not drive the car. I tried lubing them in everyway imaginable. The only thing that solved the problem for me was $595 TCP upper control arms. GOOD LUCK!

 

[ARTTII]

Also if the above doesn't work I found some good info from mustangsteve on "the squeak. MustangSteve>>Scroll about 1/3 down page
Hope this helps if the lube doesn't take care of it.

 

[crushnut]

Thanks ARTTII I hope that the lube solves the squeaking problem. These are the stock control arms that i am talking about. Oh and by the way, welcome to Stangnet

 

[crushnut]

Update

It seems that the grease has taken care of it, for now

Thanks to everyone that replied