2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission TSB 23-19-00 Instrument Panel Creak

[Wyomingcowboy]

Anybody have experience with this? I have developed quite an annoying squeek or click as it sounds sometimes. I would love to be able to fix the problem.

TSB 23-19-00

 

[FLynes]

Holy crap, that sounds like a complex fix. I'd just turn up the radio

 

[wlowe]

My truck also had a squeek that seemed to come from behind the dash on the drivers side. At first I thought it was a broken pinch weld so I lived with it for a while. Later on I read a post where a member fixed his squeek by lubricating all the shift linkage under the truck. Turns out this fixed mine also. Another possibility is a loose shock mount.



Good luck

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Mine has the same irritating dash tick/rattle. I'm pretty sure I need to do the TSB to solve it because nothing else has worked (believe me I've tried!!). It's definitely not the shifter 'cause I have a 2wd automatic.

Vaughn

 

[Wyomingcowboy]

OK, here's one for all the guru's... ... . I have this incredibly annoying squeak or click as stated before. Today, with about an inch and a half of snow as a sound blanket on the outside, I hear no clicks or squeaks. So, given everyone's knowledge, where do you think the noise is coming from??? I am about to go deaf from blaring the stereo so I can drown it out!!

 

[FLynes]

..... I am about to go deaf from blaring the stereo so I can drown it out!!

WHAT?!!!!!!!!!! :-laf

 

[rowilson]

It's coming from the automatic shifter linkage at the steering column. Spray the connections with lithium grease and no more squeaks. It worked for me.

 

[Wyomingcowboy]

Do I have an automatic shifter linkage with a 6 spd?

 

[wlowe]

Do I have an automatic shifter linkage with a 6 spd?

Yea, when I made my suggestion I didn't notice that you had a manual trans. For those with automatics, greasing up the shifter linkage is the first thing I would try.

 

[JAG1]

There's a guy over on another fourum with the automatic shifter squeek. He used a piece of heater hose and clamped it over the main pivot where the two arms come together on this pivot. I'm pretty sure that is where. Anyhow he just cut a slit in the pipe to get it over and ran a clamp around it to give it some tension and hold it there.

I greased my linkage and it worked for about a week without squeeks.

It's back again so I gotta do the hose job.

You can tell if it's your linkage on the automatics because when you hear the noise again just push FOWARD, somewhat hard on the shift lever, not up changing the gear, just forward. If the sound goes away then you found it.