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Originally Posted by razorboy
The source of all my pain (wobbling under brakes and creaking / cracking noises was lower control arm inboard nuts / bolts not tightened to spec.
They were way loose compared to the prescribed torque
Before you do anything to find a wobble or front end noise, make sure everything has been tightened corrlectly. This was the source of months of frustration and some unnecessary spending before I found the culprit
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And of course you tightened them to spec. with the vehicle on the ground (full weight on the arm etc.)?
Failure to do it this way (with no load on the bushes) results in early bush failure.... and may explain how they got like this. It's probably pretty easy to pop the arms back on after working on the front end, leaving them very loose until the vehicle is lowered to the ground, and then forgetting to go back and torque them up.
