Last year my '79 started making a creaking noise when I turned the steering wheel. It sounded similar to an old screen door with the hydraulic closing cylinders. As it creaks, I can feel it in the steering wheel. I replaced my slave cylinder with another and the noise was lessened, but still there. Sometimes it disappears, but the next time I take the car out, it is back. I worked the air out of the system as laid out in a website mentioned in the C3VR. It helped for awhile and then returned. Has anyone else out there had the same problem? Is my pump foaming and causing the problem? I am using Lucas power steering fluid. I am rather at a loss, short of starting to replace stuff until the noise goes away. Sorry about being so 'wordy' but it is really starting to bug me. Help!
Thank you for any help you can send my way.
Toolmaker
YIPPEE!!!! I FOUND IT!!!!
The creaking noise was coming from my idler arm! I thought it could be from my ball joints, so I replaced the side the noise was coming from. The noise was still there. That left the idler arm. When I took it off, the rubber grommet that acted as a boot against the linkage was compressed and dry. There was no zerk fitting on that area. My new has one. That should prevent a reoccurrence of the noise. I had previously thought it couldn't be anything like a ball joint, tie rod end, etc, because I had replaced them all less than 10,000 miles ago. That's what I get for assuming. Sigh.
Thanks to all who replied to my question/problem. You are all a great bunch of guys.
Toolmaker
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