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waldick

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I have a squeak in the right front wheel of my 97 MTX 2.5. The squeak increases with vehicle speed and goes away when a apply the brakes. I thought it was a pad hanging up, but that did not seem to be the problem. When i took the wheel off i noticed that the outer CV boot was torn. I guess i'm wondering if the noise could be coming from the CV joint and if so why would it go away when i step on the brakes ? :shrug:

If it is the CV joint should i clean it up, grease it up replace the boot with a 2-piece boot...i only have 300 bucks in the car, it has 190k on it and i don't want to spend more than i have too. I figure i'm on borrowed time anyway. Other than the squeak the car runs fine, everything works and no CEL's..

That said if i got 5k more miles out of it i would be very happy... :laugh:
 
waldick said:
.....i only have 300 bucks in the car, it has 190k on it and i don't want to spend more than i have too. I figure i'm on borrowed time anyway. Other than the squeak the car runs fine, everything works and no CEL's..

That said if i got 5k more miles out of it i would be very happy... :laugh:
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If all you want is 5K miles, don't spend a penny more.

If you want to drive for "a little" longer, then get a new CV joint.
 
Ok, soooo i replaced the boot with a quick boot. I found out in the process that the AZ product is the wrong part and only through a hand search of boots were they are to find the right part :mad:
i cleaned the out the cv-joint as best i could and the thing still looked fine as far as i could tell, lubed her up, put on the new boot and :mad: the noise was still there...and it was getting worse.

Since this all started right about the time i put freshly turned rotors on the front, i thought maybe its the rotor :shrug:

Sooo i pulled the rotor and found that it was bent, having a run-out of about a 1/4 inch, which was a complete mystery to me the thing just having been turned.

So figured that the only it could have gotten bent was when i installed it. I had pulled the caliper and the bracket off as one and reinstalled it that way. I guess i must have bent the rotor by tightening the bracket/caliper because it was not lined up with the rotor and tightened the bolts...:nonono:

or, they didn't have the rotor flat against the arbor when they turned it ...

bottom line: one different rotor, no squeak, quick boot
 
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Thats one reason I just buy new rotors. Since I didnt turn them myself I dont know that they were done correctly.
 
Basically, I had the same exact problem. It was the hub. Mine was way out of round. Never hit it or damaged it either. Normal hub has about .001-.003" of play. Mine had .020-.030". Replaced the whole knuckle, which was much easier, and it solved the problem.
 
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