I just found the problem and fixed it yesterday. I tried the oil remedy for 3 weeks to no avail. Finally got the car high enough off of the ground to see the suspension, and it was a bad tie-rod end causing the moaning/squealing noise. Replaced it and the noise is gone. FINALLY! I spent so much time getting this car restored to daily driver condition, and the squeaky suspension just made the car seem like a POS still. People would stare at my car and give me dirty looks since it was so loud when I turned corners, but now its gone, and now the looks I get will be, wow thats a pretty sharp looking car!
The day I received the car it was nose down in the dirt because the stud bolts sheared off of the right front tire and the car fell off the jackstands and the previous owner (my 20 year old brother) never bothered to put it back on the jackstand and/or fix the wheel. It had a busted out front passenger side window, the dash had been ripped up to get to the CD player, the sunroof control panel had been busted into about 10 pieces, drivers side sideview mirror was busted, drivers side tail light housing busted, both foglights missing, the framing of the rear seat was bent to **** from the theives trying to get into the trunk to get to the subs/amp, and the motor was leaking oil and coolant everywhere. The body of the car is pretty rough...faded and scratched in many places, but from 20-30 yards, you can't really tell much.
Now the car has new brakes/rotors all the way around, new sway bar end links, tie rod end on the right front, new rubber, passenger side window fixed, new Pioneer head unit and dash fixed, new sunroof panel in place, sideview mirror fixed, tail light housing replaced, foglights replaced, rear seat framing bent back to correct position. For the motor, new intake to head gaskets, valve cover gaskets, intake cleaned, throttle body gasket, EGR gasket, TB coolant bypass, spark plugs and wires replaced, entire engine bay cleaned.
The car is now just a paint job away from being pristine. But I'm waiting to do that until I get my house and a garage to shelter the SHO...no use getting it painted to have it sit in the parking lot of my aparment complex to be keyed or bird **** on it.
I owe much of the restoration of this SHO to this forum, along with Shophoenixproject.com, and Shotimes.com. To any newbie to the SHO game, the three aforementioned websites will get you through any trouble that you will experience with your car. Thanks all! I appreciate all of your help!
