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Creaky rear springs

Discussion in 'VN - VP Holden Commodore (1988 - 1993)' started by savage1987, Sep 27, 2008.

  1. savage1987

    savage1987 Donating Member

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    Anyone able to shed some light on what could be causing this? It's pretty annoying. They're King superlows with koni shocks.
     
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    springs themselves or shocks? if its springs it could be as simple as the rubber boots arent sitting over the springs properly.
     
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    that would be my guess, mine were fine... then started creeking a bit so i had a look and the rubber was dead... so maybe worth a look?
     
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    comes with wear, my old commodore had the same problem, if you take the spring out and have a look at the angle of where the spring sits yours is most likely on a wonky angle cauing the spring to make boujncing/spring tension noise...

    Dont know what causes it i sold the piece of crap for 1000 bucks and passed it onto the next owner : p
     
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    I think it's springs, seems to creak with bounce and cornering weight transfer. I'll have a look at the rubber boots, hopefully I won't need new ones, the car has been cut off from funding :p
     
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    now that im in a better state of mind and read the op properly, a creak when going over corners could be the panhard rod body mount tearing off, my vp had that for weeks until i got it welded up by a boilermaker and the creaking stopped.

    The noise i was reffering to before is more of a springy, bouncy noise.


    something to check out.
     
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    Cheers mate I'll go check it out now.
     
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    Nope mounting looks fine.. it's all still firmly attached as far as I can tell

    And just out of spite, it won't creak while I bounce the car as hard as I can.. I'm only light haha so I've no idea where it's coming from.
     
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    one of my springs used to creak in my ss, boots looked fine but were worn through the bottom. quite an annoying noise.
     
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    The 89 Green sedan had this horrible squeak and it turned out to be a rouge exhaust bracket that had been stuffed on top of the muffler. I damn near stripped the car - I mean back seat out - almost everything. Only when it went on the hoist did we see it. Yanked it out as it was not bolted on - it should have fallen out but no it sat there and squeaked and sque.......... @%$#*&% thing!!!
     
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    my mums vn had an annoying squeak at the rear....turned out it was the lower control are bushing was totally flogged and resting on the bolt sleeve....was quite dangerous

    so to be sure check all the bushes at the rear
     
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    try lubing the spring mounts.
    Ky is something that most of us have laying around and does not affect rubber. makes a good substitue for rubber grease.
     
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    lol! KY

    couple of suggestions there, thanks guys, next time the car's up I'll have a look!
     

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