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front end making chiping and whining noise
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jp101
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Apr 14, 2008, 4:24 PM
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front end making chiping and whining noise
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i just had new upper and lower ball joints put in on drivers side a wheel bearing on the passenger side and a sway bar link put what could be causing these noises its a 97 explorer with about 110k.Please help
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Tom Greenleaf
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Apr 14, 2008, 5:43 PM
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Re: front end making chiping and whining noise
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I'll try here: If this is a 4X4 with the inner and outer wheel bearings they have been unique with some problems I've had with them. Oddly, the inner and outer on the one that fooled me for a while used the exact same inner and outer bearing and if one was trashed at a certain adjustment they can behave as nothing wrong for a while till wild symptoms show up with noises. I suggest if it's this type they each be inspected. You said you replaced one but it could be another of the four in the style I'm thinking of and one side can make it sound like the other is the problem.
One of these escaped my checks with spinning the wheels and feeling for freeplay but had a hidden destroyed bearing - sounded fine with just the spin and feel test. That type are a bit of a pest to get at. A funky locking key is hidden in the grease and I recall a specail socket for the adjusting/retaining nut. Ball joints and sway bar links are not known for chirping or whinning noise. If not the type I'm thinking of I'm not sure but I still think something's up with a wheel bearing. Proper bearing adjustment makes a big difference with these vs some similar ones. Hope that helps for a direction for the fix,
T
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