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Old 11-19-2008, 10:47 AM
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This is good advice, but it's not a power steering or steering box issue. It's not a moaning noise, I'm very familiar with the angry p.s. pump noise. This is definitely a suspension based noise coming only from the right front end near the wheel, it is amplified by the fenders/etc. Has kind of a hollow ring to it. It's not tires rubbing. It sounds just like "sticky" unlubed metal. It's gotta be the kingpins. Also the period of the noise can be changed by how fast I turned the wheel. Fast=higher pitch, hardly any noise. Slow=lower pitch, more noise. I really feel like it's this cheap autozone grease I put in there, because it wasn't happening before I did that. Perhaps the high load bearing qualities just aren't there. I'm going to try Arthur's suggestion of greasing both up and down, and hell, why not left and right, and this time use a high quality grease.
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