[s-cars] Creaking Front End...Saga Continues...

[Pram]

Cody:

Creaking on compression.

Long long time ago, my 92 S4 had this problem.  Anyway to make a long
story short, I found that the problem was due to friction between the
front sway bar (the middle part of it) against the round metal conduit
(running across from left to right) which is sitting just ahead of the
bar if I am not mistaken).

With the car on the lift (tires unloaded), you would not see the contact
since the front sway bar is in different position.

You might want to check if this is indeed the case.  If it is the case
you might want to put spacers/washers on the round metal conduit
mounting points to move it farther from the sway front sway bar.

HTH,
Pram
92S4


On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 08:04 AM, Cody Payne wrote:

> Gentlemen,
> 	For those of us that are running the H&R/Bilstein Sport suspension
> I know of at least 2 others that have creaking in the front end after
> install.
>
> I have replaced the following in trying to diagnose the issue:
> -1) Upper Strut Bearings
> -2) Added Corrective Camber Plates (Including Upper Spring Seats...Same
> as Upper Spring Perches?)
> 	- Did have one cracked one on the right front
> -3) Sway Bar Bushings Inter and Outer (Helped some but noise not gone
> yet)
> -4) Right Motor Mount
> -5) APR Snub Mount
> -6) Alignment in spec front and rear
>
> I am starting to run out of options here...does anyone else have the
> same set-up with no issues?
> Creaking on compression?
> Maneuvering in the parking lot?!
> Any Eibach/Bilstein or Koni users w/ the same issue?
>
> Thanks
>
> cp
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