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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?
Never had a steering stabilizer squeak but would think a little synthetic grease under the boot would have almost endless longevity compared to silicon. Imo
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.
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.