Knocking In Pedals
05-09-2010, 10:14 AM
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On really windy days I get a clunk in the front at highway speeds. I crawled under my Jeep and the only thing I could find to duplicate it was rotating the tie rod up and down by hand. It clunks every time it hits the end of travel. Its annoying but its not worn out or anything according to Jeep so I just live with it.
05-12-2010, 04:48 PM
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Have you had a chance to troubleshoot at all? I'm sure of the above ideas will help, you can agree with how irritating it is eh?
05-12-2010, 05:54 PM
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I've greased the slip-shaft on the column with no positive results. No real reason why it should be there, I'm at 13k and it's been there since i can remember.
05-12-2010, 06:04 PM
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05-13-2010, 10:16 AM
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Just a suggestion, after about 5-6K miles and my first real "wheeling" trip I noticed a "thunk" in my steering wheel when backing out of my garage and could also hear a "ticking" sound. There are several posts on the forum about a collar that is supposed to go between the steering shaft and the firewall which slips down the shaft. you need to reseat that and then use a hose clamp to keep it from happening again. Once I had done this the "clunk" and the "ticking" were gone. I don't have a before pic but here is my after the fix pic.
Hope this helps, (there can be other causes of the "clunk").
Hope this helps,
(there can be other causes of the "clunk").
05-13-2010, 10:38 AM
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05-13-2010, 04:22 PM
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Wow you're describing everything the exact way its happening to me. It pretty much ONLY acts up when its nice out...what the hell is up with that? The other day it was beautiful out and its the worst Ive ever felt it.
05-14-2010, 07:37 AM
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i didnt read all the posts but this was characteristic of the Steering Clunk ..many threads on that.. i has the same thing , felt it in the pedals usually started after 15 min or so of driving when the jeep was warm or anythng in the summer when it was hot.. it was my intermediate steering shaft had it replaced 3 times.. each time it was replaced it was like new for about 8000 miles then it would return