Loud noise coming out of the front tire !!!

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:confused:This might sound really stupit so please bare with me on this one !!:confused:

There is a loud noice coming out of the front driver side tire !!:frown:
Im going to explain this the best way that i can!!
When you turn it sound really laud and "whiny" noice !!
I've put the car in jacks and taken the wheels off to see if it made the noice and no luck !!
than i put the wheel back on and put the car back down and there it was again !! Also if you push the car up & down by the front tire it does it to with out turning:confused::confused:
I dont get it !!! Please help !!!!:confused::confused:

The noise is nothing like this vid on post #57 !!http://www.lincolnsofdistinction.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=16602&highlight=bearing&page=6
 
These 3 pictures are showing the lower control arms and surroundings, let me know if you need me to circle them or something...


Left to right heading from driver side wheel to frame... as you can see the strut connected to it and the strut rod
 

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I'm pretty sure you can replace just the ball joints, but I bought 97 thunderbird lower control arms(same thing just way cheaper) which come with new ball joints and bushing that connect to the frame. You can replace just the ball joint, but your bushing connecting to the frame I am not sure....
 
You can replace the ball joint by itself, it's not a hard job.. but a first timer that doesnt know the difference between the lower control arm versus the sway bar end links... I'd suggest replacing the control arm as a unit.

It's far less complicated, and far less chance of screwing something up.

AND..
IF your ball joints are bad, good chances your control arm bushings are bad as well.

Might as well just replace the control arm, which is not much more expensive than the ball joint itself.

ALSO.. if your upper ball joints are bad {and they probably are too) you have to replace the control arm because the upper ball joints are not sold seperatly.

hope this helps
 
All done it was the lower ball joint !!! Thanks guys !!!
now i jusyt need to do the aligments !!
Thanks
 
budpytko said:
Gees!!! I finally got one right!!!!!! All's well again in the Pytko household!!
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You were guesing?:eek:
Not funny !!!!:mad: jk




Thanks allot !!!!:big-grin:




Want to hear something funny?
one of my air bags has a hole and we put FIX A FLAT on it !!:cool: It worked hopefully it last like a couple of weeks so that i can save for onother bag !!!
 
Educational guess.....sound you discribed is a common FORD MOTOR CO problem.

Fix-A-Flat??? HAHAHAHA...that's a first one on me! Kewl! Let us know how long it lasts! How did you get it in there?
 
budpytko said:
Educational guess.....sound you discribed is a common FORD MOTOR CO problem.

Fix-A-Flat??? HAHAHAHA...that's a first one on me! Kewl! Let us know how long it lasts! How did you get it in there?
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Well so far it has benn holding up just fine for 4 days of just test after test (let all the air out and fill it back, riven it into town and back about 15 times its a 30min drive)

to get it in there I took off the Air bag and held it upside down push the air bag in like deflating it and poored (its the green king that its normaly used for 4 wheelers or so)the hole were the selenoid goes then you stop putting preasure on the bag and it inflates itself while sucking in the green substance !!:big-grin:
care full not to put too much !! then Icleaned up were the selenoid goes so that i wont get any in the selenoid then put everything back together !!
I"ll keep ya'll posted on this !!
P.S. I call it a MEXICAN patch !!!:D
 
Just an update !!!

Its been 10 months and just last week did the "slime" started to leak !!

Its really a good way to temporarily fix the air bag if you dont have money to buy a new bag at the atime and it only cost $3.50 !!
 
Now that the SLIME worked its magic for a few months, did it give you time to have a new bag standing by ready to be installed?
 
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