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Car Forum / Ford / Ford Falcon / June 2004'79 LTD Sqeaking front-end
The old '79 LTD has started squeaking over bumps and the like. I sprayed silicone on the shock-rams thru the upper shock mounts (under-bonnet) and no-go. Any ideas? Jason Have you checked for cracking or scaffing on your polyutherene rubber bushings on your front end. Also could be rear shockies, but i would be changing some or all of your poly rubbers on front end. My old XY had the same problem and it was damn annoying. Hope this helps Peter > The old '79 LTD has started squeaking over bumps and the like. I sprayed > silicone on the shock-rams thru the upper shock mounts (under-bonnet) and > no-go. Any ideas? > > Jason > Have you checked for cracking or scaffing on your polyutherene rubber > bushings on your front end. Also could be rear shockies, but i would be [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Peter Makes sense,..it started when we had that hot spell Jan-Feb. Jason >The old '79 LTD has started squeaking over bumps and the like. I sprayed >silicone on the shock-rams thru the upper shock mounts (under-bonnet) and >no-go. Any ideas? See if you can grease the upper ball joint although I think later models were sealed. Could also be the upper A arm pivot points, again you could grease them but pretty sure later models were sealed. I'm betting on the upper balljoint if its the common Falcon front end squeaking sound. "Kieron" <kieronm302@hotmail.com> wrote in message > I'm betting on the upper balljoint if its the common Falcon front end > squeaking sound. If it *is* the usual Falcon front end squeak, then it's actually coming from either the spring seat bushes on the top arm, or the top arm pivot bushes themselves. There's no easy fix I'm afraid, other than drenching the bushes in CRC. Silicone spray can work too, but it doesn't penetrate as well as CRC does... -- Regards, Noddy. > "Kieron" <kieronm302@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Regards, > Noddy. Time to jack-up the front end,...withthat big heavy 8! Jason > >The old '79 LTD has started squeaking over bumps and the like. I sprayed > >silicone on the shock-rams thru the upper shock mounts (under-bonnet) and [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > I'm betting on the upper balljoint if its the common Falcon front end > squeaking sound. Its the common one allright and its very annoying. Never thought of the ball-joints (they are sealed). Can install a nipple by prising out the plug I read somewhere. Jason |
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