A few days ago I replaced my rear shocks and front struts on my 2002 Toyota Rav4 with monroe parts. Now during the last 90 degrees of turning my steering wheel to the left my right strut creaks. The left side doesn't do this.
I did not replace the strut bearing plates because they are only 30k miles old, and they weren't cracked, bearings looked fine, etc. In my autos class where I completed the task, my instructor said to just impact the center nut on till it's tight (This seemed incorrect at the time, but he's the teacher. I normally torque everything I can fit a torque wrench onto). I believe the nut is currently torqued to 200+ ftlbs due to 1/2 inch impact gun. Turns out that nut is only supposed to be torqued to 35 ftlbs according to a service manual I downloaded.
Both coil springs are positioned pretty well with the marks lining up and the pigtail in it's correct spot.
What could be causing this creaking?
Also, if it is indeed an overtightened center strut nut, could I impact off the nut while the car is on the ground (on all four wheels obvioiusly). Then I would hold the shaft and correctly torque the nut.
I did not replace the strut bearing plates because they are only 30k miles old, and they weren't cracked, bearings looked fine, etc. In my autos class where I completed the task, my instructor said to just impact the center nut on till it's tight (This seemed incorrect at the time, but he's the teacher. I normally torque everything I can fit a torque wrench onto). I believe the nut is currently torqued to 200+ ftlbs due to 1/2 inch impact gun. Turns out that nut is only supposed to be torqued to 35 ftlbs according to a service manual I downloaded.
Both coil springs are positioned pretty well with the marks lining up and the pigtail in it's correct spot.
What could be causing this creaking?
Also, if it is indeed an overtightened center strut nut, could I impact off the nut while the car is on the ground (on all four wheels obvioiusly). Then I would hold the shaft and correctly torque the nut.
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