Squeaking Front Monroe GT Strut Towers - VE Sedan

[RedHotChilliCommodore]

Gday everyone

I recently installed some Monroe GT struts and King SSL springs and have experienced a creaking noise in the cabin, most noticeably from the front left of the car.

Upon further inspection upon lifting, the top of both front strut towers are ‘skipping’ along as the wheels are steered left and right. You can feel it on the mounts in the engine bay. I haven’t got a video yet but the top of the towers in the wheel well are jumping along as they rotate, like when rubber is pushed across something hard, making a squeaking noise.

The suspension was installed entirely unsprung, the noise didn’t occur with the stock suspension, and the car hasn’t yet had a wheel alignment.
Currently the plan is to get it back on a hoist, take everything off and reinstall as much as I can whilst under sprung load in the hopes that that’ll fix the geometry and get rid of the noise.
Is this the best course of action, or should I be trying something else?

 

[lmoengnr]

Gday everyone

I recently installed some Monroe GT struts and King SSL springs and have experienced a creaking noise in the cabin, most noticeably from the front left of the car.

Upon further inspection upon lifting, the top of both front strut towers are ‘skipping’ along as the wheels are steered left and right. You can feel it on the mounts in the engine bay. I haven’t got a video yet but the top of the towers in the wheel well are jumping along as they rotate, like when rubber is pushed across something hard, making a squeaking noise.

The suspension was installed entirely unsprung, the noise didn’t occur with the stock suspension, and the car hasn’t yet had a wheel alignment.
Currently the plan is to get it back on a hoist, take everything off and reinstall as much as I can whilst under sprung load in the hopes that that’ll fix the geometry and get rid of the noise.
Is this the best course of action, or should I be trying something else?

Did you check the bearings in the strut tops when you swapped the springs and struts?

 

[RedHotChilliCommodore]

Did you check the bearings in the strut tops when you swapped the springs and struts?

Not in depth. Just reinstalled onto the new strut and spring

 

[Fu Manchu]

Always use new bearings. Always use new strut tops. Every time. Problem solved.