Creaky Spring...

kkkustom · **Joined:** Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:33 am **Posts:** 160

I installed my Rustys lift and my passenger front coil creaks when it is compressed or rebounded?! any ideas why? there isnt anything stuck in it, and it looks perfectly seated on the top and bottom.

is it a hairline crack or something in the spring???

Mike

Skyjump136 · **Joined:** Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:50 pm **Posts:** 1633

I'm sure its nothing that serious.

Try hitting the spring isolators and all your bushings with some silicone spray. Do a few at a time and you'll narrow down where the sound is coming from. My Frankenlift made some horrible sounds up front for the first few weeks. Now it is perfectly quiet. Chances are you just have a bushing that needs to be broken in a bit. Also, Quinn mentioned that sometimes the powdercoat on the spring can make that noise. Once it wears off a bit that can help also.

Edwin · **Posted:** Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:31 pm

Also check the bushings on the upper control arm where they attatch to the uni-body. I thought mine was a spring too, but it was those bushings.

kkkustom · **Joined:** Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:33 am **Posts:** 160

I will look at that 2 nite... should have done that last nite when I was test fitting my RockCrawler 15"s to find the best back spacing!

kj in a tight spot · **Posted:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 12:51 pm

My springs creaked when I first got them. They just needed to be broken in. They sounded like a had a bunch of songbirds trapped in my wheel wells.

kkkustom · **Joined:** Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:33 am **Posts:** 160

WD40 is the bomb! The creak was coming from the bottom, I sprayed it now it is gone. dont know how long it will last, but so far about 3 days it is still good. maybe it will come back tonight, maybe never!

Skyjump136 · **Joined:** Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:50 pm **Posts:** 1633

Use silicone spray instead. It moistens the rubber. Petroleum products attack rubber and over time break it down.

kkkustom · **Joined:** Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:33 am **Posts:** 160

thats what bennet said in the other kj forum... thats good to know.

Spike6901 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:43 pm

Mine creak all the darn time and no amount of spray has helped.

kj in a tight spot · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:02 pm

I think springs just creak. My friend has a 6in lift on his Chevy and a 6in lift on his TJ and it creaks like no other. I just assume that there is not really a way to stop it completely. Just turn up the radio or get Flowmaster exhaust like I did

That turns heads coming from a KJ and it takes away the creaks!

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