noise when i turn the wheel

skaterking411 · Post by **skaterking411** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:54 am

Hey guys im getting a noise when i turn the wheel when im moving or sitting still. only when i turn to the right tho. my dad who usually helps me is out of town for a couple months so he cant help much. any ideas? thanks.

esteinmaier · Post by **esteinmaier** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:19 am

Like a grinding, a popping, a whirring, a whining, or a mariachi band?

skaterking411 · Post by **skaterking411** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:20 am

i would say more of popping.

esteinmaier · Post by **esteinmaier** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:22 am

Check the ball joint. Try lifting the car up and moving things around to see if you can reproduce the noise.

r/tguy02 · Post by **r/tguy02** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:02 am

try wiggling the tie rod end as well. if it moves its bad

skaterking411 · Post by **skaterking411** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:14 am

r/tguy02 wrote:try wiggling the tie rod end as well. if it moves its bad

i hope its not them i just replaced them about 6k miles ago

trojmn · Post by **trojmn** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:24 am

popping/creaking when turning is usually a dry/bad ball joint.

With the wieght on the wheels, if you can wiggle the zerk or plug where the zerk was your ball joint is bad. if it doesnt move, replacing that plug with a zerk and pushing some fresh grease in is always a good idea.

EDIT: ive also put a prybar between the knuckle and lca. If you get any upward movement its bad. Try not to tear the boot.

Tro

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:05 pm

^I replaced the stubs on mine with Zerks so I could put grease in them when I thought I had a bad balljoint. It turned out to be a slightly loose LCA bolt that allowed the arm to move and make a popping noise when I pulled away.

Post by **occasional demons** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:16 pm

Could be a broken coil, but mine made nasty noises in both directions, tho returning to center was not nearly as bad. It could depend on how it breaks whether it catches both directions. Mine did not sit or feel any different than it did before it broke. I imagine if it were oem springs, you should see a change tho.

I hope it is something else than a spring tho.

A helper to turn the wheel, while you look should find the culprit. You may need to lift the body some to get a better look. I couldn't see the broken spring until I got it in the air. Then it was all too obvious.

skaterking411 · Post by **skaterking411** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:06 pm

i have coilovers.. i hope its not a spring..

Post by **occasional demons** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:54 pm

Well you should be good then. I knew you were dropped, but wasn't sure how. I doubt you have as much spring compression. Mine was basically going into near coil bind, so the top coil end was touching the coil below it, and basically notched it enough to snap.

alsey_seven · Post by **alsey_seven** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 3:40 pm

Its the ball joint

stairmaster3001 · Post by **stairmaster3001** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:43 pm

skaterking411 wrote:i would say more of popping.

yea my sisters neon does that. Its prolly a ball joint or somethingin the steering rack hitting. A tire rod end makes a clunk noise

esteinmaier · Post by **esteinmaier** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:44 pm

Can also be the upper bearing surface for the coil spring.

skaterking411 · Post by **skaterking411** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:05 pm

esteinmaier wrote:Can also be the upper bearing surface for the coil spring.

what exactly do you mean by that?

esteinmaier · Post by **esteinmaier** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:44 pm

There is a bearing in the upper strut mount so that when you turn you don't bind up the coils. I know a lot of coilovers require you to reuse them but modify them. If they are broken, you could be hearing the spring itself skip on the surface instead of turn easily.

Danteneon · Post by **Danteneon** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:58 pm

The factory upper strut mounts have a bearing in them that does go bad.

*edit...TMFS

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:11 pm

Megan coilovers have pillow ball mounts so it's not an issue here.

skaterking411 · Post by **skaterking411** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:08 pm

esteinmaier wrote:There is a bearing in the upper strut mount so that when you turn you don't bind up the coils. I know a lot of coilovers require you to reuse them but modify them. If they are broken, you could be hearing the spring itself skip on the surface instead of turn easily.

i have the megan coilovers so i didnt have to reuse anything from the stock struts if thats what you mean. sorry haha im just confused

TheComeBackidd · Post by **TheComeBackidd** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:33 pm

check your control arm bushings to man..i know the bushings in my 02 were bad this past fall and i had a really bad popping sound when i turned to the left, ended up replacing all the bushings with the energy suspension kit from modern and its all stiff as a board now!!

Post by **occasional demons** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:21 pm

esteinmaier wrote:There is a bearing in the upper strut mount so that when you turn you don't bind up the coils. I know a lot of coilovers require you to reuse them but modify them. If they are broken, you could be hearing the spring itself skip on the surface instead of turn easily.

Yeah, I was hoping that was the case with mine, but the broken spring trashed it anyways. At least the grease held all the ball bearings in place!

skaterking411 · Post by **skaterking411** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:14 pm

hey guys im heading home tonight so i can figure out whats wrong. in the mean time ive been searching. read alot of people getting noises with megan coilovers. one thing i read is coil binding which sounds like thats what it is...

http://meganracing.com/tech/faqs.asp?id ... 0coilovers?