Recently, I've been noticing a strange creaking noise coming from my front suspension. Under normal driving conditions everything is fine, but when I go over a bump that makes my suspension compress, I get a creaking noise coming from the front. It is especially apparent when going over speed bumps. I have 53k on the clock and I'm still on the stock shocks, so that may be an issue, but it doesn't sound like any shock noise I've heard before. Would a torsion bar make this type of noise? Any ideas?

-Craig

 

Sounds like ballJoints
Jack the old ford up
grab the tire from the top and the bottom lift up pull down
if you here a popping the ball joints are at issue

 

Lower ball joints are bad my 01 did the same thing at about the same mileage....

no grease in them

 

If the ball joints do happen to be the issue, how difficult are they to replace? Is it best to take my truck to a dealer to fix them? How much $ am I looking at?

-Craig

 

30 bucks a piece get the tool from autozone or wherever and do it yourself dealer will charge a fortune to do it....

It's not that hard to do just take your time on a saturday and plug away ....