Okay, I've been noticing for the past few months an annoying squeaking coming from the rear of my truck. At first I think it was my leaf springs in the rear driver side and now it seems to have spread to the passenger side as well.

Should I be worried? Is this something I can just grease away and not have to worry about or should I be looking into replacing the leafs?

I'm looking at getting an OME leaf pack from Mike at X-treme but this is a bit too early.

Any suggestions?

 

Anybody?

 

i certainly dont know, sorry

 

What have you done to decide the leaf pack? Can you reproduce noise while your not moving? or are you just looking for an excuse to get a mod earlier than you planned
Nathan

 

All I have to do is move the truck and it'll squeak.
I can sit on the bumper, sit in the seat, push the truck side to side.

Almost everything I do produces this sound. It's starting to get a tad annoying :pat:

As far as the mod goes... well sure, I mean if I HAVE to replace the leafs I might as well get a set that'll raise'em up a bit, right?

 

Spray your leafs down real good with high pressure water in case there is some grit in between them. If that doesn't work I have used WD-40 and sprayed the hardware until it stops. Just dry the excess off good before you go wheeling or all kinds of dirt will stick to the springs.

 

Of course mods are about improvement.

If you have been off road recently you may have gotten some grit trapped in between the leafs. A high pressure wash may blow it out but it could have draw backs i.e. surface rust developing on the pack thus more squeeky, squeeky. You could disassemble the packs and apply a thin layer of grease. The first thing I'd do is make sure the center bolt of the pack is tight and the bushing and hangers are clear of road grim. It's amazing how a small piece og grit can resonate though out the whole spring. I guess they are really thick guitar strings if we can strech the imagination that far.

Nathan

 

I had an annoying squek and it ended up being one of the shackle bolts. I anti-seized it and havent had any problems. I also had my tailgate squeeking mostly during flex situations though. I took one of the bolts out and added a peice of rubber kinda like a donut. It worked...good luck ...squeeks are annoying as hell. my seats starting to squeek Ill have to work at that to try and get it stopped...:pat:

 

Hmmm, I'm trying to remember if this squeaking worsened after Pismo...

At one point I was stuck in pretty deep so I'll have to take a look.
Thanks guys!

 

have you tried laying underneath and shaking it up and down and side to side? that's how I found some noisy things under there.

 

Something like that yeah...
I was just wondering if it could possibly be anything else (which I highly doubt at this point).

 

hey... i had the same problem with squeaking on the back of my tacoma. It turned out to be the leaf springs and shackles got a little bit of surface rust from me driving through a river. To fix that squeeking, i just sprayed some penetrating oil on the springs and shackles and bushings and all the noise magically disappeared It took less than 2 minutes.

Tim

 

hmmm...
sounds more and more like WD-40 is the way to go.

I just wanted to be sure before I did anything about it as it is only an annoyance now. I'd hate to do the wrong thing and end up with a big'ol self-produced mess on my hands.

 

Yes, WD-40 will dry and not leave a greasy or oily film on the springs which will only hold more dirt, sand and dust.

 

Funny, I thought WD40 attracted grime and dirt while other lubricants like Triflow were better.

At least that's the case with my bike chains...

 

WD-40 is better than oil or grease but you might give the Triflow a shot.

 

Ahhh... okay, I see now.
I'll have to give that a try when I get back to my truck after work.

Thanks!

 

If your looking for something that wont dry off, fluid film works good too. available at napa

 

Thanks for the help fellas!
I just didn't want to accidentally lube up something that's not supposed to be lubed

I ended up drowning the leafs and brackets, etc with Triflow. It still squeaked after I was done but after a day of letting it soak in there's no squeaking going on

Woohoo!

 

Great !!!

Glad there is something that dries better than WD-40 so you won't coat them with sand and dirt again.