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| Author: | RTStabler51 [ Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | 'Frozen' Suspension? |
I've only noticed this when it is cold out side... It sounds like my suspension is 'frozen.' In my AM commute I go over a few speed bumps in neighborhoods and when the suspension compresses it sounds like the struts/shocks are frozen. Anyone else ran into this? |
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| Author: | Blue KJ in PA [ Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:27 am ] |
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That is due to the lovely choice made for the materials that were used to make the suspension bushings. |
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| Author: | KJ04 [ Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:29 am ] |
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Disconnect the front of the swaybar, pull the bushings, clean and spray well with silicone, reassemble. Should help for awhile, if not, get new ones. |
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| Author: | Blue KJ in PA [ Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:40 am ] |
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KJ04 wrote: Disconnect the front of the swaybar, pull the bushings, clean and spray well with silicone, reassemble. Should help for awhile, if not, get new ones.
What he said...I went home to for lunch and looked at my spray can I've been using and it is lithium grease that I've been using in the same way as KJ04...I wasn't sure what can I had been using so I did not include that in my post. |
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| Author: | Maximum Carnage [ Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:00 pm ] |
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Try this: http://www.lostjeeps.com/forum/phpBB3/vie ... highlight= |
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| Author: | sleeve84028 [ Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:41 pm ] |
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Or just deal with it? After a while it becomes a noise that I look for in the cold weather... I start to worry if I don't here the suspension on cold mornings. |
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| Author: | Jeepjeepster [ Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:00 pm ] |
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sleeve84028 wrote: Or just deal with it? After a while it becomes a noise that I look for in the cold weather... I start to worry if I don't hear the suspension on cold mornings.
x2.. I took them off and cleaned them the first two times it did it, then I just said heck with it.. I may put a grease zerk in them one day. 
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| Author: | sleeve84028 [ Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:35 pm ] |
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just a grammar note here... I would have gone back and edited it in my reply the word here should have been spelled hear. Hear = sound Here = location |
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| Author: | Hood297 [ Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:21 pm ] |
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I added grease fittings to my swaybar bushings in about 2 hours... very easy and cheap as well. I think it is well worth it. |
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| Author: | RTStabler51 [ Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:17 pm ] |
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thanks for the info guys! I'm just glad to hear its a common issue. |
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| Author: | Saber [ Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:47 pm ] |
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yea when it was -10 here in PA my KJ made all kinds of nasty sounds in the front end. |
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