2000 Dodge Caravan / popping sound from front

[strombony]

Anyone with a Dodge Caravan experience the following: When I make a right or left hand turn and the vehicle leans into it, I hear a popping sound from the front end? I'm guessing it has something to do with the steering linkage or sway bars?
Am I correct in this assumption?

 

[ChiTDI]

Could be CV joints.

 

[eoghan]

It always has been the CV joints for me when I had that noise. Check the boots on them are they torn has the grease leaked out?

 

[ZZman]

They have bad front ends. Probably a dry ball joint.

 

[gavinl]

CV joints or bad wheel hub, my brother's 99 GC was popping at the front axles when he turns or goes over speed bumps and had to have a wheel hub/bearing replaced.

 

[eljefino]

If it's a continuous popping relating to speed CV joint

If it just relates to leaning (or going over speed bumps-- particularly diagonal ones) sway bar bushing, end link, or ball joint.

Sometimes a bad ball joint shows up stationary, cranking the wheel back and forth, forcing the tires to scrub.

 

[mechtech2]

Not likely to be a CV joint.
Sway bar end links, maybe ball joints, strut mounts or bearings, even brakes.

 

[JimR]

I own a 2005 Chrysler Town and Country and just went through the same problem with those symptoms. It turned out to be the sway bar and the sway bar bushings. If you are lucky, you may only have to change out the bushings and not do the sway bars.

With parts and labor, the job cost $198 with my independent mechanic, not the dealer.

 

[oilboy123]

Originally Posted By: JimR
I own a 2005 Chrysler Town and Country and just went through the same problem with those symptoms. It turned out to be the sway bar and the sway bar bushings. If you are lucky, you may only have to change out the bushings and not do the sway bars.

With parts and labor, the job cost $198 with my independent mechanic, not the dealer.


+1

They have a TSB on this somewhere. The Sway bar stuff is pretty easy to replace.

 

[aaxb970]

Sway bar end links!

 

[strombony]

Yes, I just posted on this in regard to my alignment "seeming" to be off. I should have just asked my question here. Thanks guys, I'm sure you are right, either links or bushings, or both.

Can alignment be off ever so slightly when these things go bad? My mechanic told me that it will not cause the alighment to be off, but I've also heard others say that it's possible..??