Red Elephant / Bill Moore - and a mystery noise (hey Marty!)

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

My parents are in town this week and wanted to take them up wheeling. We took Red Elephant up to Bill Moore and then out the normal way to Empire. We skipped Mill Creek, but it was a fun day.

I did end up getting a bad noise coming from the driver's side suspension. It has me worried because I just can't pinpoint it. Everytime the suspension droops there is loud popping noise. There's nothing wrong that I can see...and I've checked out the ball joings really well. I'm thinking it could be the strut going bad? Any ideas?

USAFCOP · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 2:41 pm

Do not remember, do you have Al's Arms?

If so, it could be the bushings on the arm at the body mounts. Mine popped the welds holding the bushings into the arms broke and it popped when the suspension flexed rotating the bushing in the arm grinding the broken parts of the weld against each other instead of the bushing rotating on the bolt as it is supposed to. If your bushings are pressed in, then this won't be it.

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

I think that's what's going on. I now see some bare metal when I look at that area. Can they be re-welded or am I SOL?

USAFCOP · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:51 pm

MOAB 4x4 Outpost welded mine, then the welds broke, and Marty re-welded them, so yes they can be rewelded, but even then they could break again. I drove mine that way for a year with no damage, ony the occasional pop when I hit bumps hard.