Sometimes, when making a sharp u-turn in the neighborhood, something in the front end squeaks and clunks really loud. It's almost like someone just took a hammer and hit my front differential. It's a loud pop.

I did some searching and found info about something like this happening during a dry stop steering, but this happens only when I'm moving. The plastic caps that usually wear off on the steering stops are still there, and I even greased them. So the metal grinding and popping isn't coming from there. What else could it be

 

SO you checked all four? Don't you have a 2wd? Maybe your control arms are squeaky?

 

my caps are still there as well, and the front end of my truck still pops like all hell making sharps turns... I just live with it; it's a Toyota thing; the crew around here knows that, and everyone around here with Toyota's has accepted the fact that their IFS rig makes a little noise on the sharp turns, lol

But what else could it be? ball joints, control arm bushings, tie-rods, idler-arm, pitman arm, steering gearbox... it's quite the list...

 

i have this to, and after about 6 months i found out what it was, their is a bolt that hits a metal piece and it makes that sound, i can see it hitting, the indention on the bolt and the metal piece, ill take a picture to show tomorrow

 

Mine did it until I put grease on the steering stops. Anyone know where to get replacement caps?

 

4x4.

I greased the steering stop and it didn't help. Not that I noticed, anyway. Oddly enough, I took it to the car wash and powerwashed a whole bunch of grease and oil off of the front differential and that did help. Blasting away the chunks of grease seemed to lessen the occurrence.