Recently I've been getting loud squeak noises when suspension height shifts or turning in parking lot. All looks tight and ok front suspension. If I hadn't heard this before I'd be quite concerned.

Last time I replaced upper control arm bushes with proflex. Fixed problem. I'm submitting a warranty replacement request with them. But that's going to take a few weeks even if approved.

Got to thinking about this and had an idea. It would be easy enough to pull the upper control arm components (bolt, washers, spacers, metal cylinder inside bushes, bushes), grease the heck out of each, put them back.

On the small chance someone has done this, or in case I'm missing something with this idea I wanted to bounce this off you. Bad idea ( destructive or waste of time)? Unlikely to help? Possibly could work?

Thanks guys,
John

 

do the uppers show signs of failure to get replaced under warranty?? Are you sure it's coming from the uppers and not the lower control arm bushings or the sway bar bushes.

 

Did just this on my new bushes I replaced around 3years back with high temperature grease as I noticed I only got the squeaky problem on very hot days😎,cool or damp days no problems, worked for me,👍

 

Thanks Graham. Steve, it's just noisy. We will see about warranty. I went in there today to fix bad headlight. Wow once you figure it out removing the wheel well inner lining is really easy! Anyway while jacking her up I looked and listened carefully. This may be the sway bar bushes themselves. Guess they are about 50k miles old.

I'll let you know how it goes and what I find.

Thank you both,

John

 

If you go back in there, use silicone grease.
I've used it on poly bushings and had no issue with them.
Using the graphite filled ones on the Spit6 I'm building now, so the jury is still out on that one. Had to turn them down as they don't have many request for 50 year old Triumph bushing. LOL

 

^^ What Wayne said. We greased up the new poly bushings that we installed in my wife's 2006 XK8 in early January 2016 and after they settled in during the first week or so, they have not made a peep since....

 

RESOLVED

Turns out that I lost one of the 2 bolts (Jaguar part JFT10816EP ) holds the left sway bar bush bracket in place. Movement of the sway bar causes the noise.

John