Front Suspension Noise

[Ron Going]

If your interested....... A friend and myself isolated the location by rolling the car over a 2X4 with the motor off so we could more easily hear and pinpoint the noise. It turned out to be the right front coil over shock assembly. We took the shock/coil off the car and loosened the lower spring tension nuts to relieve the coil pressure. With the tension off the spring, we could take the aluminum cap off the top of the coil spring itself. We saw metal shaving on top of the rubber bumper that slides on the upper part of the shock staft. The shavings and THE SQUEAK were coming from where the top of the aluminum cap was seating itself in the upper attach point of the shock. We put a healthy amount of lithium grease between the top of the alum cap and where it seats itself on the upper attach pt. of the shock. Drove the car....NO SQUEAK! Don't know if this is a long time fix or not at this point, but at least know where the problem is. Hope this helps somebody out there with a similiar problem......Ron
You can click the picture for a larger view. This picture is a 427 frame, but from the ERA FIA website under "suspension,front" in the index.