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Originally Posted by Lamby
I have an annoying knock, I know its one of these bolts. Perhaps lower or Upper control arm or ARB links. I am going to get under there an check every single one of them and tighten them buggers with my torque wrench.
Cheers for the info.
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It's so much more important than I gave it credit for.
I actually was changing out all the bolts in my reinforcement tray thinking that was the source of my creaking noises and as a side job, decided to start checking all of the suspension bolts for tightness. It was literally the first thing I checked!
I just grabbed the lower control arm and wiggled it and I heard it clink a bit so I dug deeper into it. Then I discovered that I could grab the assembly by the rotor and it was visibly moving around a tiny bit. Eyebrows went up at that point. If it was 100nm of torque necessary, these couldn't have been torqued any more than 25-30nm.
I spent money on this thing trying to locate this noise. Thrust bushings and even replaced the rack (although it was leaking anyway).
For a lot of us, checking the torque on the suspension bolts seems a bit of a time waster as I am always thinking what part needs to be replaced but I am here to tell you that these nuts and bolts not being torqued to spec caused a violent wobble in my steering under brakes (I have seen this a lot on the forum) and would make clicking, creaking, grinding type noises going from reverse to drive and during wheel turning at slow speed.
All makes perfect sense now!