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Squeaky lower ball joint driving me crazy

Discussion in '2nd Gen. Tacomas (2005-2015)' started by garciav, Apr 10, 2018.

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  1. Apr 11, 2018 at 8:10 PM
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  2. Apr 12, 2018 at 7:47 AM
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    https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/squeaking.532132/#post-17057765

    Found this thread and now I'm starting to believe that I misdiagnosed this issue and it could be the in between the LCA bushings. This noise replicated in the video from that thread sounds exactly like the squeak i'm dealing with.

    either way im still gonna lube up the LBJ's with said method from this thread to see how it works, I'll just have to plan to overhaul the suspension in the near future
     
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  3. Apr 12, 2018 at 7:51 AM
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    Squeaks from LCA and UCA bushings can be epic!
     
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  4. Apr 22, 2018 at 4:34 PM
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    Update: turned out to be the lower shock mount/eye.

    Undid the bolt, lubed everything and torqued everything back up...

    Silence
     
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  5. Jul 27, 2018 at 7:58 AM
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  6. Jan 3, 2020 at 8:06 PM
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    I'm getting a similar squeek.. but only when turning the wheel left/right.

    At first I thought it was the CV, but now I'm thinking it's my lower ball joints. They're not in the best shape.
     
    xguntherc, Jan 3, 2020
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