Ken,

Your upper control arm bushings are causing the squeak, without a
doubt.  They look fine, work fine, and are fine, except for the squeak.
What happens is that the bond between the rubber bushing and its inner
and outer metal sleeves breaks over time and that is the squeak you
hear, rubber rubbing on metal.  The metal outer and inner sleeves are
held in place by a spot weld the UC arm and the through bolt
respectively, and the rubber is supposed to flex and absorb shock and
noise.  It still does this task, but noisily as the bond breaks and
slippage also occurs.

Replace your bushings and the squeak will be gone!  (Do a front end
alignment afterward too.)

Ken Hunter wrote:
>
> I have the same problem and my bushings check out OK per Bentley. My upper
> boots were torn  but the joints were good so I found some boots that would
> fit.. they failed within 2 months. A couple of months ago there was a thread
> on this topic.
> For a Synchro there is a clearance shown in Bentley determined by the
> thickness of the eccentric adjuster washers. I was told that these different
> thickness washers applied to the non-Synchro's also (although not shown to be
> so in Bentley). When I had the upper arms off I greased everything and
> torqued them back to 50ftlbs.with the car on the ground. Still squeaked,
> still looking for a solution.
>
> Ken Hunter
> 82 Westy 1.9D
> 84 Jetta 1.6D
> 89 Mitsubishi van

--
Stuart MacMillan
Manager, Case Program
800-909-8244 ext. 8208

Getting your share of the Net yet?
http://cobaltgroup.com
http://UsedEquipNet.com