Tracking Down The Infamous Jeep Squeak! Could It Be The Tie Rod Ends?

[@Papa__Squatch]

Well I’m invested now, we gotta find out what it is!!!!

[@RoadRashOffRoad]

It ended up being my lower ball joints. I greased everything that had a grease point underneath the Jeep with a hand pump grease gun. I believe that my lower ball joints were clogged from off Roading and when I tried to grease them with my hand, grease gun, it didn’t push enough grease in them. I ended up taking it to a Jeep shop and they used a compressor grease gun that unclogged the bottom ball joint nipple

[@1870offroad]

Stethoscope, one at a time put it up to each ball joint, the pitman arm to drag link and the tie rods. Have someone turn the wheel, you’ll here it when it’s over the source of the sound

[@toddhoffmaster6057]

Have you tried staying lubricant on the swaybar bushings? A quick test would be to disconnect your sway bar and drive around to see if that got rid of the squeak. If you jack up the front and have someone turn the wheel back an forth do you hear the squeak?

[@RoadRashOffRoad]

@@toddhoffmaster6057 yes, I greased everything that had a grease point on it, including my sway bars. It ended up being my bottom ball joints. While I did grease the bottom ones, I believe the nipple on the grease points were clogged in my little hand grease gun wouldn’t pump enough grease in it. I took it to a Jeep shop that had a compressor grease gun and it unclogged it quickly and filled it up. Squeak is gone.

[@toddhoffmaster6057]

That is good news. Thank you for the update.

[@paulzaler5384]

I think its your ball joints.

[@RoadRashOffRoad]

Youare right. I thought that I had greased all of my ball joints. I greased everything that had a grease point on it but my “hand grease gun “ did not push enough grease in my lower ball joints. I think the nipple was clogged. When I took it to my Jeep to the shop, They greased the bottom ball joint with the compressor tank, and it pushed enough into the lower ball joint… squeak gone