Rear-Gate moaning and groaning.........

ridepate · #1 (**permalink**) 09-17-2010, 04:36 PM

07 EL..........My rear gate lift-acuator moans and groans, pretty nasty sounding. I ran it down to the top attachment point. Lubed the piviot on the plunger and the post it mounts on with no luck. Anybody had this problem??
Thanks,
Jimbo

glruff · #2 (**permalink**) 09-17-2010, 06:39 PM

Just curious, does he moan and groan when the truck is running?

ridepate · #3 (**permalink**) 09-17-2010, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by glruff

Just curious, does he moan and groan when the truck is running?

No, Just when opening or closing.

glruff · #4 (**permalink**) 09-17-2010, 07:48 PM

Try it with the truck running and see if you have the same noise. It's possible that your battery is weak or failing. There was a similar post and the battery turned out to be bad.

welfarewagon · #5 (**permalink**) 09-18-2010, 10:33 AM

My automatic opener/closer would moan and groan while in the closing operation, it got louder if it was hotter outside. Dealer replaced the open/close motor and and black arm thing under warranty no problems since.

berry1234 · #6 (**permalink**) 09-19-2010, 10:45 AM

Motors bad. They are made cheaply.

ridepate · #7 (**permalink**) 09-19-2010, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by berry1234

Motors bad. They are made cheaply.

I can grab the top mount and it shuts-up. I can feel the noise. The temp. does seem to affect it tho....With no-load it makes no noise. Really wierd.

david_jr · #8 (**permalink**) 09-20-2010, 12:14 AM

Mine makes the noise intermittently about 20 % of the time. Only moans on the close, not the open.

kiosk · #9 (**permalink**) 10-17-2010, 01:34 PM

anyone come up with anything for this? mine doing it too