excessive squeeking from upper control arm area

[gst96spyderman]

Every time I goto turn the wheel, the car squeeks like crazy. I've troubleshot and elimintaed the fact that it's not the power steering pump, nor the steering belt. It is coming from the upper control arm or the ball joint itself. Took it to a mechanic, (same guy the installed the new turbo and told me that is what's wrong.) How can I eliminate the last two possibilities and find out exactly whats wrong. Its either the upper control arm or the ball joint that goes with it. I've done a little shopping and its not that expensive of a part, and seems easy enough for me to fix on a weekend. Just wanting to make sure I buy the right part. Thanks

 

[PieEyedPiper]

Be certain that its not the lateral control arm ball joint making the noise. This is a common failure on 2g's and is a factory recall for all 2g's.

 

[98gsxtuner]

Mine is doing the same thing. I'm going to change it either here in a lil bit or tmrw ill let you kno if thats what it is....by the way the part im preplacing is the lateral control arm

 

[knochgoon24]

You might want to spray some WD-40 around and see. That MIGHT help you find it. It's how I found which bushing I had squeaking.

 

[banshee04]

You might want to spray some WD-40 around and see. That MIGHT help you find it. It's how I found which bushing I had squeaking.

WD-40 helped me out find out when mine were squeaking

 

[gst96spyderman]

Okay. I went to autozone online and looked up lateral control arm. Could not find it. All I could find was and upper and lower control arm. I'm lloking at the diagram as well, and it dosen't show one either.

Upon checking again, it seems like the noise is coming from the strunt mount (pivot bearing). Not sure 100%. I'm having the car taken to the shop here in a few hours to have A/C checked as well as minor oil leak coming from new turbo.

As far as the factory recall, I remember having to sacrafice my old Talon for like 3 days because of the recall. I beleive it was a ball bearing of some sort. This was in 2001-2002 time frame. So I'm not sure.

MAJOR QUESTION. Does anyone know if my 96 GST Spyder can use parts from a 95-96 model? Or is the control arm model and year specific? Found parts from a GSX but not sure if these parts will work.

 

[snowborder714]

The lateral arms (straight) are the same, but the compression (curved) arms are not.

And your recall was probably for a ball joint.

 

[aaronhawk60]

I had a noise coming from the same area and mine turned out to be the strut pivot bearing. you can spray some lube on it from the top and if that's you problem it will quiet down