popping/creaking noise front end

[Mr. OAM]

if your ball joints are bad you can test them by pressing down on your front fenders if they are shot it will creak

And everything else that moves with the suspension that is wore can creak.


The way we inspected balljoints when I was an Auto Tech was to jack up the car, preload the suspension by jacking the lower control arm to a near normal angle, and then grab the inside and outside of the tire at the bottom (lower balljoint) and jerked in and out. This would reveal any slop in the balljoint.

DO NOT jack up the car up off the ground by the lower control arms. This can ruin the lower balljoint, according to Ford. It may not be bad right when you set the car down, or it may, but it will go bad in the near future.

Did the lowering kit include any polyurethane components? They are really hard and create knocks and creaks.


Steve

 

[ant0045]

already checked the strut mount. and yes a replaced the isolators with urathane bushing.

 

[thorco3]

with the forum discount you can get the control arms (03) for 182 and some change shipped from stangsuspension.com... not too bad imo.

 

[94 DropTop]

the one place posted is cheaper than that.

 

[Venom351R]

The link I posted has them for $160, unless the shipping is $22 or more then they are cheaper.

 

[thorco3]

I just mentioned stangsuspension because they are a site sponser, and I've order quite a bit from them without any problems. With the discount it is actually 156 from them as well. shipping is probably going to be high regardless of where you order them from 'cause of gas and all.

 

[94 DropTop]

ok then, i thought that was with the discount.

 

[MuscleMustang95]

Are we talking about 2003 cobra front control arms?? Where do you get them?

 

[thorco3]

you must not have read the whole thread :hammer:

you can get them from many places. stangsuspension.com, latemodelrestoration.com, and summitracing.com are some of my favorite places to order from and they all carry them. (some places call them ford racing control arms, but they are 03-04 cobra ca's)

 

[jetskiracer113]

has the price of those control arms really gone up $110??
the link he posted awhile ago said they were $160, but on the website it says $274...

 

[Venom351R]

sneaky!!!!!!!!!

 

[5litrarag]

has the price of those control arms really gone up $110??
the link he posted awhile ago said they were $160, but on the website it says $274...

actually yeah they have... Summit has them for about the same price now too.