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Creaking Noise: Cannot Figure it Out
The essentials:
1999 Toyota Camry LE Automatic
2.2 4 Cyl Motor
I think this may be the stabilizer bar links on the strut, as I can see the boot seems to be detached slightly and there is grease protruding out. However there is no play in them and this noise isn't the usual noise I would expect from the bars going bad.
The noise just recently developed. I picked up a paper route and have been doing it for 4 days now. The noise at first could only be heard when in reverse and the wheel cut all the way in one or the other directions.
Now it can be heard both in reverse and drive, more so at city speeds, and sometimes when I cut a right (the right side bar looking the worse) you can hear like a rubbing/scraping noise coming from the wheel well. You can also hear a clicking noise, very low, some times coming from the same right wheel well, sometimes it's loud, most times it's barely audible if you aren't listening for it.
You can also from the driver side here a squeaking intermittently at city speeds, but I don't think this is related.
I put the car up on the lift at school the other day and examined the suspension, a prior mechanic told me I would need struts soon, how he determined this is beyond me since at this time there is no sign of them leaking, and he never took them off the car to manually compress them. He could be right though.
Axle looks like it was replaced prior to me buying the car, the boot is completely sealed around the CV joint with no grease pushing through. Brakes and rotors look fine. Strut mounts are brand new, like less then 4,000 miles on them.
Basically, what I guess I would like to know is there anything else I could check without taking the struts out to rule them out as a potential issue, and what do bad stabilizer link bars sound like on these Camry's?
Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.
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