My Fox started squeaking
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Laughing Gas
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From: South Central Indiana
My Fox started squeaking
A couple of years ago I replaced my stock steering stabilizer with the Fox unit. Over the last couple of months, every time I turned the wheel I would hear maybe not a squeak, but kind of a whirring sound and can only hear it when going really slow. I was actually hoping it was the Fox unit doing this and nothing more serious so I pulled the boot down, gave the input shaft a squirt of silicone spray, replaced the boot and the sound is gone. Is the whirring sound a prelude to failure and is spraying down the shaft with silicone ok to do?
Fleet Mechanic
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No boots on mine, call Fox or email them their customer service was great the only time I had a question. I assume the steering stabilizers are rebuildable like the shocks so I'm sure they have heard of this before.
More Turbo
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From: Extreme NW Ohio
On both my 2017 F350 & the wife’s 2013 Explorer, the boot around the steering shaft where it goes through the firewall makes a faint squeaking noise when turning at slow speeds. A little squirt of silicone spray quiets them down for a few months.
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