Wierd Clicking noise when making a right turn

[azcummins]

Noticed a clicking sound like I have a rock in my tire when I make a right turn. It comes from the LF tire which makes sense, but there is NO rock in my tire so I'm stumped on what it could be.



any ideas?

 

[Mundgyver]

How many miles on the front end universals please

 

[azcummins]

75k... easy driving, no hauling. Not a lot of 4x4 time.

 

[kdcrockett]

In addition to my Y2K Turbo Diesel, I have a 95 Dodge Ram 4X4 and a 94 Jeep Wrangler. On both the 95 Ram and Jeep I have to replace the front wheel joints about every 30,000 miles. All these vehicles have the same type of front ends. The noise you describe sounds like one of the types of noise the front joint makes when going bad. You can get a big screwdriver into the joint area to fles it a bit to determine if its bad. Good Luck.

 

[Steve Campbell]

I am prone to agree with....

front wheel joints. These joints see the most angularity on the rig. Seal failure (yes/no) leads to lube failure, leads to joint failure. So what can be applied to the seals (I am thinking some sort of aerosol) on a regular (oil change) basis??? Some kind of silicone???



Maybe I am wrong about the nature of their failure.

 

[azcummins]

Do you all mean the front U-joints or the front ball joints?

 

[shendren]

intermediate steering shaft... .

 

[azcummins]

Steering shaft? Like the u-joints in there? I might have to look into that Borgeson Upgrade...

 

[shendren]

yep, it took the pop out of mine. i was stupid and took it to the stealer. $400

 

[tobaccogrower]

front brakes

i had the same problem...

click, click,click when turning. first the right,then the left. changed the front brakes(had metallic)to regular napa pads and no more click!