Panerai127

Hey guys just bought this car 3 days ago. it is 01 gs430. I love it but have few issues. My freind who is a used car dealer bought this car for me on dealers auction, took the car to his shop to inspect it. he sais something was loose in the front axle, he had to tighten it and everything should be ok. I drove the car everything is ok accept when I go over certain bumps or litle wholes on the road strait or while turning i feel and hear a slight loose cracking noise coming from front and i feel it in the steering wheel too, feels like something is loose in the front axle, it does not happen all the time just sometimes on certain kind of bumps, ot if there are many bumps in a row like a rail road track, feels like something is loose there, anyone has any ideas or had something similar?

NT2SHBBY

sounds like my 00 GS400 when I first got it...

sounds like you have bad lower ball joints/ bad strut mounts or maybe both....but either way all the parts are cheap

rominl

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also check on the steering wheel column and pretentioner to see if it's tightened up good

maaloxx

ANything while turning?

Navaz

Check all front sway bar mounts

Panerai127

When I turn and hit a bump or somethinbg on the road i feel it but if the road is good turning is no problem just on bumps.. i will check the ball joints and everything you guys said before.. thanks a lot for the help, i will let you know when i fix it..

chuckb

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joshoowa

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yep the sway bar end links bro... mine were soo loose it was making loud noises i thought my car wasa about to fall apart

Panerai127

I don't know if I need to go to a different mechanic, I mean this guy was by me for long time and for my father. I went to balance my tires yesterday, I told him about this problem, he told me that with 85k miles the sound and feel of something loose coming from steering wheel could be a vulve that is loose or worn out and loose inside the steering column, and to fix it, you might need to get the whole thing and it will be expensive?! Should I go to someone else? I live in NYC area, anyone know a good mechanic in this area that knows lexus. A lot of you mentioned lower ball joints problem, and sway bar ends are loose, I told him, he said that most likely not and did not check them. What you guys think?

GQD_GS4

random question, but how much psi are you running with in your tires? if the tires are overinflated, it tends to overexagerate feeling when going over bumps...

maaloxx

Lower Ball Joints or Sway Bar Bushings

Kbueno

Ditto on the front sway bar....bolts have a tendency to come loose and sounds like what you described.

maaloxx

Anyone know how hard it to do this?

G

rominl

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if it's really teh bushing, it should be very easy. they are in the middle locations and you just take them off to grease them

Panerai127

getting this thread out agian.. Let me answer all the above questions first. I run 36psi front and back on my newly replaced Conti SportContact 2 235/45/17. The ball joints, tie rods were changed and sway bar links were tightened as all this was changed along with new Tein CS v2 suspention. Pre-tentioner tightened. The steering is nice and tight but still have clunking noise as I go off a sloped drive way on angle to get on the main road, left side only, it clunks as the car balances itself over the slopped drive way. And my other problem is still there and the most enoying. The steering feels loose and feels like it disconnects from the wheels and the rack as I go over rough brink pavement on my condo driveway, it feels like steering is not planted to the wheels, but has play. Same thing happens on highway when I hit a bump it feels like it disconnect a bit.. I also had my rack mount bushings tightened with 4 washers as the rack moves quiet a bit when you turn the steering, now it is nice and tight.. so all this isolated ball joints and strut mounts, pretentioner rack, sway bar links had to be tightened too, as all this was changed out.. The las thing left is the sway bar bushings?! what do you guys think? Does any one have a pic of sway bar end links and mounts, maybe I think of something else? Should I order Daizen Sways and be done with it, or order Daizen bushings first, since they afre cheap??