Clicking/popping from front passenger side

[NewTekBuzz]

When I back out of the garage and cut the wheel to back into the turn around I get this really loud popping sound. It’s coming from the passenger side front wheel. I know pin pointing this is probably a long shot. I put my go pro under the car in hopes to catch something... take a look. I don’t see anything that looks to be causing the sound.


Parts are Steeda front sway bar with aluminum mounts, Steeda links.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

Tim

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[whalesalad]

You can see your sway bar endlink hitting your strut. That would be my first guess? Is your swaybar in backwards?

I think the sway bar needs to be like this, where the X's are the wheels.

[X] \________/ [X]

front of car

 

[whalesalad]

BTW love the camera setup... such a perfect way to diagnose these issues!

 

[NewTekBuzz]

I did have it in backwards at first, had to pull it and flip around to even get it to bolt up

 

[whalesalad]

Ah, I was looking at this backwards as well. This is the passenger side, I assumed it was the drivers side looking towards the driver.

I still see the endlink hitting the strut. The strut has two mounting locations for the endlink so that they can be installed on either the right/left side of the car. Does the endlink need to be in the other mounting location?

Right at 0:05 seconds you see the strut hit the endlink and physically move the swaybar. It's not supposed to do that.

 

[NewTekBuzz]

I’ll have to look closer at this, thanks
It only happens when back up to the left, doesn’t do it backing to the right.

 

[NewTekBuzz]

BTW love the camera setup... such a perfect way to diagnose these issues!

Haha thanks. I love my GoPro session, you can put that thing just about anywhere.

 

[SteedaTech]

When I back out of the garage and cut the wheel to back into the turn around I get this really loud popping sound. It’s coming from the passenger side front wheel. I know pin pointing this is probably a long shot. I put my go pro under the car in hopes to catch something... take a look. I don’t see anything that looks to be causing the sound.


Parts are Steeda front sway bar with aluminum mounts, Steeda links.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

Tim

Hi Tim,make sure you used plenty of our lube on the sway bar pivot bushings and the endlinks are torqued to spec.

Steeda Tech

 

[NewTekBuzz]

Hi Tim,make sure you used plenty of our lube on the sway bar pivot bushings and the endlinks are torqued to spec.

Steeda Tech

Used all the lube provided, you can see it coming out the sides. Not sure I remembers seeing torque specs for the end links.

 

[SteedaTech]

Used all the lube provided, you can see it coming out the sides. Not sure I remembers seeing torque specs for the end links.

End links torque to 85 ft/lbs

Steeda Tech

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