popping sound when turning!

[jimmy88]

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With standard push pull steering alot of force gets placed on the drivers side front spring bushing. If you have it to tight it may be the insert popping back and forth in there as the spring moves.

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/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Have what too tight? By "insert" are you talking about a stock bushing with the steel sleeve around the outside?

 

[jimmy88]

I guess your not going to answer. If you are talking about the spring eye bolt and the spacer or sleeve it slides into, the bolt is supposed to clamp the spring hanger ears tightly against the spacer so neither the bolt nor the spacer moves. Factory spec for the spring eye bolt is 90 ft. lbs. If the bolt is loose, the bolt and sleeve will be allowed to move around, which will start rounding out the bolt holes in the hanger and the spacer will rub and wear away at the inside of the hanger. Look at a stock bushing and you’ll see the spacer ends are serrated so they bite into the hanger ears to resist twisting or moving. (Once again showing how stock parts are usually better designed!)

Over tightening the bolt may crush or collapse the spacer, but unless that happens how could having the spring eye bolt too tight cause a popping noise?

......if you were talking about something else, then please explain.

 

[Blue85]

This might not help the current thread, but stock rubber bushings and aftermarket poly bushings are designed to work totally differently. A stock rubber bushing is supposed to be tight on the inside and outside. The bushing moves by the rubber twisting between the inner and outer sleeves. That's why they don't squeak like poly bushings. Nothing is sliding. A poly bushing has to move inside.