My last OME (trooper) setup squeaked badly. This time I used silicon grease to remedy Also, I used to have poly sway bushings. Those things squeaked so bad, I had to add zerks to mounts.
Squeeky OME set-up
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I did discover Energy Suspension's special assembly lube/grease for urethane bushings a couple years after my original post here.
This is the stickiest most tenacious grease I've found for poly/urethane and even rubber bushings. Keeps them quiet for a long time.
Amazon.com: Energy Suspension 9.11104 Formula 5 Prelube (8 oz. tub): Automotive
This is the stickiest most tenacious grease I've found for poly/urethane and even rubber bushings. Keeps them quiet for a long time.
Amazon.com: Energy Suspension 9.11104 Formula 5 Prelube (8 oz. tub): Automotive
How does one diagnose the squeak? I have something in the back squeaking and driving me nuts. Has anyone ever heard of body pucks squeaking? I have this squeak that is pissing me off and I've changed, springs, t bars, sway bar bushings, shocks, shock bushings, rear links upper and lower included new bushings, panhard and bushings. I can't think of anything left other than the body mounts. But it sounds like new shocks and bushing might not fix the squeak?
^^Take a look at your rear sway bar link bracket. Mine was slightly bent and just a touch loose where the bracket connects to the frame. It squeaked like crazy.
This thread has been going for 7 years.....crazy.
This thread has been going for 7 years.....crazy.
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Ended up being the ARB bumper rubbing the front fender, totally opposite side from where I thought. I also had a rear driver seatbelt bolt loose that was squeaking.
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Six year old thread and still helpful! I have the same dry squeaking sound from below on my OME setup. I hear it when even just driving down a flat even street. A mechanic said the sway bar bushings are still fine. I'm going in for a new muffler today- going to have them tighten the shocks while they have it in the lift.
Let me know what it is. I've replaced all the sway bar ends and bushings front and rear, all rear control arms, tie rods and front ball joints. And still have the same squeaks. I think one slider might be rubbing against the body underneath. Other than that, the only things left would be the upper rear shock bushings and the panhard rod bushings. My squeaking seems to mostly be at low speed, driving straight, especially when coasting.
^same as above. Let us know! Mine drives me nuts.
After driving around with the door open today, a lot of my squeak seems like its the slider mount touching the body of the cab.
Klaus. Do you have enough slop in the u-bolt that you can loosen and let it come back down? The first time I jacked my truck with mine it did the same. But I could feel mine with my feet in my floorpan.
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I'm going to try that. Seems like I'm constantly adjusting them.
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I could hear a weird squeak that I assumed was my drivers door due to the location and sound. In an attempt to solve that, I opened the door while driving to discover that the squeak was even louder. And coming from right where the slider mount is.
The mounts on my WKORs seem off. No matter how I adjust them, they seem to be almost touching the pinch weld upfront and a mile away in the rear. And the middle mount touches the underside of the body. I'm going to try loosening them up and tightening the top bolts first, then the bottom. The theory is that the u-bolts triangulating at the top slightly will stop them from creeping up. If that doesn't work I might just weld them on.
Hi-Jack over.
I might think its more likely saggy body mounts than WKOR. Your sliders would have been made on a jig and there *shouldn't* be much variance.
Gotcha. Yeah mine is definitely Coming from both FPS and rear axle assembly somewhere. Very hard to narrow down both of their exact locations when they both make noise.
you could remove the front and rear sway bars and any sliders or skid plates. Help narrow down the squeak.