So I havent had a chance to look at it too much. But my car (ball joints have been on the way out for a little while but not too bad yet) started fucking screaming for help today. The drivers front wheel seems like its going to pop the fuck off. The sound it is making is as if there is something in the axle swinging around and hitting the underside of the car. There are too many possibilities in there for me to guess at it and just start replaceing shit. First step is change the fucking ball joints....but I think this might be a tierod. I need help diagnosing this one guys. Lets see what everyone narrows it down to and then when I have it towed home, I'll start looking there.

I would agree that either a tie rod or ball joint may be the main culprits although a knocking sound over bumps could also mean a bad strut.

its not over bumps.... the sound is timed with the spin of the axle. It also goes away while the brakes are applied. Thats why I was thinking tierod

and the noise has a loud clicking noise from outside the car.... you can hear me coming for sure!

tierod def

^^^^^^^^^^^ just agreeing with me and nelson HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I was thinking the same thing

its hard to diagnose without hearing it..... but hopefully someone (shammy is good at this) might be good at taking an online description and translating it to wtf is wrong. LOL

no if there was no clicking noise then it would be the bearing not the tierod

and incase you guys were wondering..... new ball joints 250 each side!

wheel bearing sounds more like and unbalanced tire wabling...... while they may be fucked from whatever this is, they arent whats making the noise and thumping that I feel in the gas pedal

wow that much for ball joints on that car?

they are pressed in..... if I could find the right ball joints I could have them pressed but lincoln sells the knuckle as a whole

and its actualy 256 or something like that

damn that sucks man

yeah not sure wha the tie rods are gonna run me.... but it looks like I wont be lowering the LS or turning my cell back on. When it rains it poors. First I have to step huge and bail out the familly and now when I have a chance to get back on track, the car sticks it in hard and breaks it off!

looking like its about 100 bucks for each tie rod

damn thats def shitty man. if u want some help changing them out let me know

should be good. unless you wanna float me the 150 for the springs and then we'll change em both out! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

u smokin crack?

hahahahaha yessir!

Is that AWD?

I'd be tempted to put the car on jackstands and let it run in gear.

RWD.... wont work, but good idea. I can put it on stands a rotate the wheel

bump.... if I cant get this sorta nailed down, im just gonna tow it to a shop. I hate paying people to fix things I can.

ive had similar issues with another car, however the car was fwd, so it was really the axle, the clicking was the key.

if the ball joints are on the way out and the only other thing you can think of is the tierod, why not replace both and see if that fixes it

so ehre is whats wrong.... ball joints on both side, wheel bearing on drivers side, and inner tie rod on passengers side. Not to mention that at 93k miles the shocks are due for replacing. hee hee hee