Groaning Steering

[Guest phil19gti]

When I turn the wheels on my car there's a terrible groaning noise. It sounds like a dry joint or something similar.

 

Has anyone any ideas?

[Robbie G 4]

Me too, but only recently, only occasionally, and only quietly.

 

I think it's the first signs of a worn steering rack. If that's the case Im gonna fit a quick rack and maybe power steering.

[Fuqa 0]

mines been like it for years.. sound cokes and goes, tried everything, just live with it now

[Robbie G 4]

Oh...try lubing and tightening the universal joint inside the footwell and near the firewall. This solved a similar problem I had a while back.

[Fuqa 0]

Oh...try lubing and tightening the universal joint inside the footwell and near the firewall. This solved a similar problem I had a while back.

done that on mine.. but noise has come back again

[pug_ham 241 3 Cars]

Oh...try lubing and tightening the universal joint inside the footwell and near the firewall. This solved a similar problem I had a while back.

Isn't there another just outside the bulkhead in the engine bay or do you mean that one?

 

Mine made a noise after returning from FCS and I figured it need a new one lower steering column but it hasn't done it since. (well on the drive to & from Pugfest anyway)

 

Can't see it being the whole rack but who knows.

 

Graham.

[nick 3]

Mine does the same, but only at low speed when parking, I've only noticed it after doing the Mi conversion so I wondered if the extra heat from the e/manifold had dried up what little bit of lube was left in the U/J.

 

Nick

[Alan_M 66 1 Cars]

Mine did this, and i changed the p/steering fluid and it stoped! Really nice at parking speeds now!

[Guest phil19gti]

Mine tends to only do it at low speeds too. Greasing up the universal joint does sound like a good suggestion as the sound is definitely coming from the footwell.

[pug_ham 241 3 Cars]

Mine did this, and i changed the p/steering fluid and it stoped! Really nice at parking speeds now!

I don't have PAS on my car though.

 

Graham.

[205man 0]

mine used to groan (creaking rubber noise) when turning at low speed and it turned out to be the top mounts where kanckered, it stopped when i replaced them

 

alan

[C_W 3 1 Cars]

The gaitors on the steering rack can sometimes make a groaning type of noise.

[Guest aclivea]

I know this a bit of an old thread but I've just cured this by changing the inner bushes on the anti roll bar. Used to creak like a creaky door on national creek day now nice and quiet. Try spraying them with WD40 and see if this makes it better for a while, if so its probably worth replacing them.

 

Multi story car parks are a much quieter affair now.

[Miles 331 1 Cars]

Could be one of the drop links, Just changed mine and has cured the worst of it, Just the top mounts next

[Guest aclivea]

Basicaly it looks like all we've concluded is that groaning steering could be anything, Typical pug, love em.

[Guest phil19gti]

I never got round to solving this problem because of busy weekends.

 

I ended up discovering the noise was coming from near the pasenger wheel after jacking it up. It sounds like a dry joint. I'm not very hot on the steering components - it comes from inside the black ribbed rubber seal behind the gearbox.

 

Is that the driveshaft?