I recently(about 2months agoswapped my MTX and when reinstalling it I tried to replace everything I could at the time, this inculdes new outer tie rods, EXTREME motor mounts, new tranny mount.
Now I have been getting an annoying squeaking sound(metal to metal type sound) from the top left of the strut tower area that I first thought was in my dash but later realized it was outside in the strut tower. I am guessing the fix for this would be new strut mounts for the metal squeak and strut bearings because I get the obvious strut bearing groan/grind sound when turning plus I had this same problem before and fixed it this way.
Now my real mystery is when turning lock to lock while stopped in one spot mostly when making a full right I get a vibration in both tires usually a pop on the left side and a slight jerking back and forth motion from the steering wheel if I hold it at the right spot, I have searched and found that this is sometimes related to strut rod bushings but when I did my MTX they physically looked fine and bright red. Could the strut rod to spindle bushing cause this? Because if I recall right I didn't remember even checking this one. The noise and vibration can be more related to like the sideways vibration or noise you get when you get a FWD car into a spin with the e-brake and when the tires catch traction on a dry spot it does the shudderring/vibration noise because of the sideways flex, if you know what I meant from that then you know exactly what the vibration or sound feels like to me while sitting in the car.
Another problem I need to find the cause of is why my recently new outer tie rods with less than 2000miles on them are already shot and popping and gushing out grease? Would 180K+ inner tie-rods cause this or 180K+ steering rack? I think thats it for my front end suspension, oh and I blew my new struts in less than 6mths damn those SS lowering springs, can't wait to do my Police mounts/Tokico's and hopefully strut rod bushings if that is the cause of it all.
Now I have been getting an annoying squeaking sound(metal to metal type sound) from the top left of the strut tower area that I first thought was in my dash but later realized it was outside in the strut tower. I am guessing the fix for this would be new strut mounts for the metal squeak and strut bearings because I get the obvious strut bearing groan/grind sound when turning plus I had this same problem before and fixed it this way.
Now my real mystery is when turning lock to lock while stopped in one spot mostly when making a full right I get a vibration in both tires usually a pop on the left side and a slight jerking back and forth motion from the steering wheel if I hold it at the right spot, I have searched and found that this is sometimes related to strut rod bushings but when I did my MTX they physically looked fine and bright red. Could the strut rod to spindle bushing cause this? Because if I recall right I didn't remember even checking this one. The noise and vibration can be more related to like the sideways vibration or noise you get when you get a FWD car into a spin with the e-brake and when the tires catch traction on a dry spot it does the shudderring/vibration noise because of the sideways flex, if you know what I meant from that then you know exactly what the vibration or sound feels like to me while sitting in the car.
Another problem I need to find the cause of is why my recently new outer tie rods with less than 2000miles on them are already shot and popping and gushing out grease? Would 180K+ inner tie-rods cause this or 180K+ steering rack? I think thats it for my front end suspension, oh and I blew my new struts in less than 6mths damn those SS lowering springs, can't wait to do my Police mounts/Tokico's and hopefully strut rod bushings if that is the cause of it all.
