Newbie here and thus my first post. (Apologies if this has been covered, found a couple threads on the issue but with no end result posted) Purchased a 98 LC with 270k miles. Within a week I slapped on an OME lift. Observations at that time is that most bushings are shot, some worse than others, as well as driver/passenger upper ball joint boots are torn (stock arms,have new boots on the way).
After installation of lift (approx 3 weeks now) I started hearing a squeak from the driver side. A week went by and it went away, had also been raining all that week. Last night took the LC for a drive and the noise is back (can only hear it with window down). Noise does not produce when turning left or right,Only when I hit a bump or the suspension compress/decompress.
today I jacked it up, took the wheels off and saw that the upper shock mount nut on driver side was About finger tight. Tightened that down and also saw that the sway bar links bushing were way past “on their way out”. I’m thinking that’s my culprit of the noise.
purpose of this post is to see if anyone more knowledgeable than me (most people on here) with LC’s have any other ideas of what might be the culprit.
After installation of lift (approx 3 weeks now) I started hearing a squeak from the driver side. A week went by and it went away, had also been raining all that week. Last night took the LC for a drive and the noise is back (can only hear it with window down). Noise does not produce when turning left or right,Only when I hit a bump or the suspension compress/decompress.
today I jacked it up, took the wheels off and saw that the upper shock mount nut on driver side was About finger tight. Tightened that down and also saw that the sway bar links bushing were way past “on their way out”. I’m thinking that’s my culprit of the noise.
purpose of this post is to see if anyone more knowledgeable than me (most people on here) with LC’s have any other ideas of what might be the culprit.