Lifted '12 Front End Clank
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I had the same issue with my 2012 and brought it back to the shop that installed the lift and they were under it for an hour before they found the problem. When you install a lift you should grease all the bushings before you install any of the parts with the lift. Even each side of the bushings before you bolt them in the mounting brackets.They found one bushing that was missed. They removed it and greased it and no more popping it's gone. Hope this helps.
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I had a similar problem with no lift, I did swap out he wheels for some rubi wheels that had 50 miles on them.I had them mounted and balanced with my TPMS. the front left keep making a poping noise. It drove me nuts for a couple months, I was under my jeep every day looking for a loose bolt or something like. The noise only happened when driving slow or on take offs. I finaly talk to a friend who said the wheel may have a crack in it. I swapped it out with the spare and the noise was gone. either the wheel had a crack or it is out of balanced. I think it was out of balanced these bigger wheels are hard to keep balanced. Couldnt beleave thats all it was though.
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I tightened all the bots on the swaybar links and there is no change. That doesn't seem like the problem to me because the clunk is coming from movement of the tie rod, track bar, and axle assembly. Those things are not dependent upon sway bar links as I can tell. Help still needed.
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Originally Posted by Sparkplug
I tightened all the bots on the swaybar links and there is no change. That doesn't seem like the problem to me because the clunk is coming from movement of the tie rod, track bar, and axle assembly. Those things are not dependent upon sway bar links as I can tell. Help still needed.
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I've got a clank/pop in mine that occurs sometimes when backing out of the driveway and stopping or just on sudden stops. Sometimes it just happens out of nowhere. I've climbed under the Jeep multiple times and twisted every nut that i touched in the lift and every single thing is tight. I finally just accepted that there is going to be noise and it's nothing to worry about. I have no issues other than the occasional pop/bang so I almost forget it's there now.
Here is the noise mine makes from 27 seconds too 34 seconds does it 3 times sounds almost like sticks breaking i can understand when im flexing like that but this is the sound it makes on the road normal driving it drives me crazy nothing like pulling away from the gas station in a brand new 2012 and hearing this loud clank everyone always looks
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Hmmm.
I have gone through all my components. I suppose I could again.
Just to be clear... this isn't a creak or a crack. It is a clunk that comes from forward/downward movement of my front end components.
I have gone through all my components. I suppose I could again.
Just to be clear... this isn't a creak or a crack. It is a clunk that comes from forward/downward movement of my front end components.
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To give some background, I recently installed a 4" rancho sport lift about a 3 weeks ago. Never heard that noise until last week - is it a bushing that has to be replaced, what ccould cause that?
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To give some background, I recently installed a 4" rancho sport lift about a 3 weeks ago. Never heard that noise until last week - is it a bushing that has to be replaced, what ccould cause that?
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tie rod
To give some background, I recently installed a 4" rancho sport lift about a 3 weeks ago. Never heard that noise until last week - is it a bushing that has to be replaced, what ccould cause that?