Front end issue. Clicking and smoking IWE, brakes, axle???
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Front end issue. Clicking and smoking IWE, brakes, axle???
Hello,
first post and I hoped it didn’t come to this but here I am. Truck is a 2012 4wd, 125,000 miles and pretty problem free till lately.
Installed rough country 2” lift with the new strut assemblies about a month ago. Days after I started getting the infamous clicking, ratchet, wheel of fortune sound. Speed sensitive in the left front and it does NOT go away in 4WD. Took it to my local shop and they confirmed that it was not holding decent pressure to unlock the front left hub. They replaced the air lines stating there was a crack and I thought all would be fine. Driving it around it happened again. It’s intermittent and not constant. Going straight, turning, brakes on doesn’t matter. Speed sensitive and it’s loud.
Last week I replaced the IWE end and the regulator thing on the fire wall and I thought that would be it. Well today it came back and I noticed a few things...
The clicking starts after stop and go traffic meaning when it gets hot. Once I get on the highway it eventually goes away. I can feel it when the clicking starts in the steering wheel. It shakes and I can almost feel the click. Then I roll down the window and confirm the damn sound. Few minutes on the road and it goes away and steering back to normal.
today it started close to home so it never got the chance to cool off and when I pulled in the driveway I could smell something was wrong, then I noticed smoke coming out of the wheel well so I opened the hood and saw a little bit but I could not pinpoint where it was coming from. The back of the brakes where extremely hot as was the cv. I could feel it coming out of the wheel. Smell was a burnt rubber smell.
I have a appointment at my shop Friday but I would really like to try and get this figured out. I’m leaning more towards the CV joint although there is no thrown grease in my wheel well but it really feels like something is binding up in this corner of the truck. It doesn’t want to roll when I let off the brakes.
any other suggestions would be great so I don’t throw more parts at this problem than I have to!
Thanks!
brett
first post and I hoped it didn’t come to this but here I am. Truck is a 2012 4wd, 125,000 miles and pretty problem free till lately.
Installed rough country 2” lift with the new strut assemblies about a month ago. Days after I started getting the infamous clicking, ratchet, wheel of fortune sound. Speed sensitive in the left front and it does NOT go away in 4WD. Took it to my local shop and they confirmed that it was not holding decent pressure to unlock the front left hub. They replaced the air lines stating there was a crack and I thought all would be fine. Driving it around it happened again. It’s intermittent and not constant. Going straight, turning, brakes on doesn’t matter. Speed sensitive and it’s loud.
Last week I replaced the IWE end and the regulator thing on the fire wall and I thought that would be it. Well today it came back and I noticed a few things...
The clicking starts after stop and go traffic meaning when it gets hot. Once I get on the highway it eventually goes away. I can feel it when the clicking starts in the steering wheel. It shakes and I can almost feel the click. Then I roll down the window and confirm the damn sound. Few minutes on the road and it goes away and steering back to normal.
today it started close to home so it never got the chance to cool off and when I pulled in the driveway I could smell something was wrong, then I noticed smoke coming out of the wheel well so I opened the hood and saw a little bit but I could not pinpoint where it was coming from. The back of the brakes where extremely hot as was the cv. I could feel it coming out of the wheel. Smell was a burnt rubber smell.
I have a appointment at my shop Friday but I would really like to try and get this figured out. I’m leaning more towards the CV joint although there is no thrown grease in my wheel well but it really feels like something is binding up in this corner of the truck. It doesn’t want to roll when I let off the brakes.
any other suggestions would be great so I don’t throw more parts at this problem than I have to!
Thanks!
brett
