Syracuse315

Got underneath the car today, the noise is coming from around the spherical bearing but I don't it's the actual bearing. Seems like it's coming from the left and right side of the silver cylinder (I don't know the name of it) where it bolts to the body. I've sprayed a bunch of grease from both sides, we'll see if this helps.

Jazzer The Cat

Hmmm... are you running a set of '94~'98 LCA's? They had a smaller hole and may be getting slop where it mounts through the TB's. Of course, this would mean you also had those bolts as well, so not likely.

I think they were 10mm bolts, where the New Edge bolts were 12mm.

Old Mustanger

Maybe the installer didn't torque down the thru bolt enough?

Syracuse315

I have a 250in-lb torque wrench, any idea what the required torque is?

Jazzer, I'll confirm they are 12mm bolts.

UPRSharad

There's that, and also I've seen cars where the control arm bolt holes are oval-ed out. (in Kentucky, they called it "wallered out")

Either way, you'll have to remove the bolt to check out the holes.

Syracuse315

Is this just from wear and tear?

Syracuse315

Does anyone have the LCA torque spec as well?

Syracuse315

Looking at a similar thread in the S197 section:

"Did you hold off on tightening the LCA and UCA bolts until the suspension was loaded? You could have binding of the bushings if you tightened everything up with the suspension unloaded."

So many potential causes...

UPRSharad

More from abuse, or undersized fasteners.


80-100 lb-ft on the LCA bolts.


Spherical bearings to not need to be torqued under a load. They do not bind.

Syracuse315

Makes sense, that's the whole reason to go with them. Does it matter if the suspension is loaded when the thru-bolt is torqued?