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Replaced the right front wheel bearing and the lower balljoint, because of an imbalance-sounding noise. I just had the tires rotated and balanced, it’s a chuffchuffchuff sound that at first I thought was a brake and at first was intermittent. Now it’s full time and starting to harsh my mellow. I’m damned if I can find it. The brake is fine, the wheel bearing is new, the tires are only a few months old and recently balanced, the front axle has recently been resealed and refilled. I don’t know what else to do at this point but wait for it to break and fix it. I hate this kind of car BS.
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Where the right front wheel before the rotation? If you swap wheels left to right does the sound follow the wheel or stay on the right?
Its really hard to pinpoint noise.ive changed wheels and the noise doesnt seem to move or change.
My hands hurt just thinking about swapping out ball joints.
I have a similar tail of repairing hard expensive things to correct a strange noise. i finally tracked it to the absense of a $1 anti-rattle spring that was supposed to hold the brake pads apart.
A tutelary fable with (I hope) some aid in your current situation.
Remember that rattle in my Cherokee? It was under the back seat and was loudest when I was sitting at a stop light, with my foot on the brake pedal?
Turned out to be a brake line. It was loose and the connection was verfuckled at the wheel cylinder. (Tube broke under stress, I think)
When my foot was on the pedal, even at a stop, the ABS was pulsing, which caused the brake line to move slightly. And, being loose, the line slapped against the underside of the passenger compartment.
Would you have thought that? Lesson (I think): check something else. It may not be what you think it is.
M
Oh, hell. Forgot key point: When you tried to diagnose it, you might remember we thought it might be an exhaust problem. Or engine mounts.
M
If the noise is present only when the vehicle is moving, and loudest at slow speeds, check the brake rotors for something like a piece of wire, a nail or a stone caught in the surrounding metalwork. My wife’s Accura picks up shit like that every once in a while.
yeah, that’s the next thing on the list.
If it is a chuff chuff it could be an intake issue. Might even be a plug a little loose although those don’t stay loose for long.
Anyway I think I would look in the engine compartment.
YMMV.
Its silent at standstill and matches wheel speed.
Loose nut behind the steering wheel?
Nah, that’s MY car.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Most times when we see this in the shop it is a ring of rust on the rotor where the pad does not make contact. Pad contacts the rust and makes a bit of noise. Usually on the inner surface.
Roger
yeah, I have checked the front and now I need to look at the rear, but it’s that kind of noise, alright
I( think I’ve decided to girl up on this and wait until it breaks and then
whine until someone fixes itthat’ll tell me what to fix.Anybody have ghost ‘check engine’ lights.
My ’05 F-250 ‘check engine’ comes on everytime I floor it.
Analyzer says one or all injectors are not firing, yeah right.
Ford wrench says it’s common to have ghosts. Still pisses me off. And they prolly make a lot of dough off of it.
Skip: That’s as often as not a fuel tank issue, like a bad gas cap or an evaporative cannister. Get an OBD scantool and keep it in the truck, and watch the sensors to see which one kicks. The scantools are getting really cheap.
I was just handed an easy one. Symptoms: No power, noise like a big ball bearing bouncing around under the cam cover, crankcase four quarts low.
Son-in-law strikes again.
Good luck on yours, Og. Here’s hoping it’s quick and easy.
Turn up the radio.