Regis Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 When I drive over some rolling bumps in the road, get into the car, or push up and down on the rear end, there is a creaking noise coming from the driver's side, rear spring and wheel area. When I rock the car and touch the spring i can definitely feel it there the strongest. I've sprayed silicone on every bushing I can find and still nothing. The sound is a rubber on metal creaking sound. The car drives fine and doesn't sag on that side or feel soft. Any ideas or suggestions welcomed. Maybe a full bodied silicone dunk would do the trick -kg 206,000 miles of salt country "Burns" rubber " I've never considered myself to be all that conservative, but it seems the more liberal some people get the more conservative I become. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marika Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 I had that problem too. My mechanic said it was the strut mounts. If you really want to make people safe drivers again then simply remove all the safety features from cars. No more seat belts, ABS brakes, traction control, air bags or stability control. No more anything. You'll see how quickly people will slow down and once again learn to drive like "normal" humans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marty Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 try a product named RUGLYDE. It is for rubber items and will not attack the rubber like some other lubes will. I find it at NAPA. It comes in large containers maybe 1 gallon, and you have to provide the applicator,like a spray bottle with a "stream" setting. My front swaybar bushings would squeek when it was cool/cold outside, the RUGLYDE stopped it,after maybe a day or so of soak time. When I was young the corner stations used it on all the bushings and hangers,part of the lube job. They would use it in a fine mist ( I remember the chrome ,domed spray rigs with a schraeder valve on top, you filled it and then aired it with the air chuck) I use an empty 409 container. Good luck to you! Marty OUT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regis Posted June 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 I'm confident it's not a strut mount. Of course, i could be wrong but don't tell my fiance' that. I think gas from my leaky fill tube (now has a new one) dried out a bushing and I'm just not finding it. Let me say this again and maybe it'll trigger a thought: when I have someone push on the rear bumper I can feel the creak in the REAR spring. The vibration seems heaviest in the spring as opposed to the surrounding supports or that synthetic yoke that Bruce cracked in his 96 sts. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. Side note: The heavy gas smell from the leaky tube and the creaking sound appeared around the sametime. -kg "Burns" rubber " I've never considered myself to be all that conservative, but it seems the more liberal some people get the more conservative I become. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinksmoothie Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 it is your struts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marika Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 I'm confident it's not a strut mount. Of course, i could be wrong but don't tell my fiance' that. I think gas from my leaky fill tube (now has a new one) dried out a bushing and I'm just not finding it. Let me say this again and maybe it'll trigger a thought: when I have someone push on the rear bumper I can feel the creak in the REAR spring. The vibration seems heaviest in the spring as opposed to the surrounding supports or that synthetic yoke that Bruce cracked in his 96 sts. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. Side note: The heavy gas smell from the leaky tube and the creaking sound appeared around the sametime. -kg Are the springs made of fibre glass? Some are. Just a wandering thought..... If you really want to make people safe drivers again then simply remove all the safety features from cars. No more seat belts, ABS brakes, traction control, air bags or stability control. No more anything. You'll see how quickly people will slow down and once again learn to drive like "normal" humans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regis Posted June 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 it is your struts Now don't beat around the bush...just kidding. Ok I'll bite. What makes you think it is the struts? -kg "Burns" rubber " I've never considered myself to be all that conservative, but it seems the more liberal some people get the more conservative I become. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regis Posted June 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 Are the springs made of fibre glass? Some are. Just a wandering thought..... Didn't know they had those. Metal springs as far as i can tell but the yoke is probably fibreglass. -kg "Burns" rubber " I've never considered myself to be all that conservative, but it seems the more liberal some people get the more conservative I become. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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