I agree ^^ if they did a sh*^#ty job then take it back and make them fix it. Or at least get your $$ back.

 

Drove my car around today. This morning I heard some creaking sounds. I later saw that one of my lug nuts was missing. Lexus must of forgot to tighten it down all the way. So I put on a new lug hoping the creak would go away...

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Not very happy

 

Wow. That's scary. Take it back.

 

Yeah I need to call them tomorrow, it sounds like one of my brand new ball joints is about to fail. Hopefully that's not the case but we'll see. Old stairs should sound like this, not a Lexus. It sounds like I'm turning a the wheel to a Pirate Ship.

 

That sounds like an improperly seated spring rubbing against the perch.

 

Idk, it could be but I haven't touched the Springs. The last things I've had done were replacing the Ball Joints, Tie Rods, and Caster Arms 3 Days ago.

 

Dont know about where you are located, but here in FL a lot of the roads are crowned pretty substantially so even with a good alignment your car can track to the passenger side.

 

AKS14, there is a bit of crowning on Ohio roads, but even if I drive on the wrong side of the road and I put my steering wheel straight I drift to the right.

I solved the nasty creaking issue, though. We looked back at all the bolts we took off and made sure they were all torqued down. One of the bolts on the brace was lose, and then we found out that the bolt holding the Caster Arm up was not torqued down all the way. We torqued it down to the recommended 122 ft lbs (if I remember correctly) and I haven't heard a sound since.

I still need to get my alignment redone and buy those parts which brings me to one of the questions I have. So I was looking at the Figs Toe Links. When you pay for the Toe Link for $165, are you only getting one, or are you getting a set of the two Toe Links?

One final question. So today I tried to change my Rear Diff Fluid. I shouldn't have trusted the 13 year old Fill Plug because even though I seated the Allen Key very snug with a hammer (and after I had cleaned out some of the rust inside of it with a screw driver), I still ended up stripping it. I know it was seated well because I put I pipe over the Allen Key and when I put some muscle into it the pipe snapped. So anyways, I am wondering where I can buy a new fill plug, and also I drain plug while I'm at it. I'm going to have a shop drill out the old fill plug, so I need a new one on hand to have installed. I couldn't seem to find a section on the Rear Differential at Sewell Parts so I couldn't locate the part.

Sorry for all of the questions guys, it has been a long year of DIYs, and I've really appreciated all the Feedback.

 

Still looking for the answers to these last 2 questions.