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    Squealing while turning and moving suspension

    Ok, like my title says, I've got a squealing sound when I turn the wheel from center. Also, the same sound is produced when bouncing the FR corner by jumping on the door frame, or when getting into/ out of the car. I don't think its a blown strut because when bouncing, It doesn't keep bouncing when I stop. Also their is no fluid coming out of the strut.

    Also, here is a video describing the sound. Its really quiet in the video so you may want to turn your sound up.



    First 12 seconds is playing with the wheel, 0:16 is getting out of the car, and the rest is bouncing in the doorway.

    What could this sound be? I'm thinking LBJ but I'm not sure.

    Thanks
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    #2
    Sounds like a DRY suspension or most likely bad balljoint, usually the bottom one is the most dangerous, check if your is busted and needs greeese, if it is get a new one before it breaks on you while driving
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      #3
      Check for play in the joints as below in my sig to find an obvious fault.
      If that checks out OK, look for split ball joint boots with no grease inside them.

      Could be - Shocks, dry sway bar bushes, loose lower arm bolts, Dry ball joints.


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        #4
        Yup... My upper ball joint was dry and moved horribly. I replaced both sides because the other boot was leaking. It feels much better now.

        But the squeaking from the suspension is caused by something different... When I was replacing my UCAs I noticed my passenger spring is bent. Its kinda hard to explain, so I made this MSPaint pic for example.



        The rear of the spring is bent inwards and is rubbing the shock. So is my sping done for and need replaced?

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          #5
          ^^^ Something is really wrong if your spring looks like that. Did you mess up where it sits on the top or bottom?

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            #6
            Might have been a weakspot in the spring causing it to compress like that. The squeaking could be any of the bushings, my energy suspension squeaks sometimes like that. More so when it's cold.

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              #7
              Originally posted by gcvphoto View Post
              ^^^ Something is really wrong if your spring looks like that. Did you mess up where it sits on the top or bottom?
              I think its from my sister owned the car...

              She jumped it several times...

              looks like ima be getting a new coil spring.

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                #8
                9/10 times its the lower ball joint.it will get worse then it will break and that not good. trust me ive seen the worst. normally if the upper ball joint was bad it will be loose, knocking around. sometimes it could be the tie rod but that not likely

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