maxman00

iTrader: (1)

Whenever I turn my wheel all, or most of the way to the left, I hear a loud creaking noise with the car in motion. This basically only happens when I am pulling into a driveway with a slight incline.

I don't hear the noise just by turning the wheel, driving straight in, or when I turn to the right.

I just started hearig it about 3 months ago. Currently I have stock springs with tokico blues.

Any advice would be great!

thanks
Maxman00

Street Reeper

Check the bolt on top of your strut (in the engine bay.) It may need to be tightened or the strut mount might be bad.

maxman00

iTrader: (1)

Thanks for the advice, but I already checked that.

The noise is almost equal to sound a large rusty bolt makes when you turn it.

Street Reeper

I am having somthing similar with my 96 (also have a 2k2) from the rear but I doubt it is what you are having. Mine I believe is a frozen caliper. I jacked the car up and spun each wheel (I was hearing some groaning from the rear.) Each wheel spun freely but there was a great amount of resistance on the rear wheel. I loosened the caliper bolts and everything was fine (originally thought it was a bad wheel bearing.) With the caliper bolts hand tight everything is fine until I use the brakes for the first time, it still does it (makes a small groaning sound around corners sometimes or at stops very rarely) I am pretty sure the caliper is not retracting like it should. Give it the wheel spin test while she is up on stands (to test the front wheels put the car in nuetral with the parking brake on) if they don't spin with ease that could be some indication.

How are your spring isolators (plastic around the coils?) When I changed my suspension mine were ripped to hell. Spray some WD 40 on the spring - on the side where the noise is coming from. If it helps just buy some (forget off hand the type of tubing I used from the plumbing department at lows) but if that is your problem I'll look it up.

That at least should give you a couple of things to do