Popping Noise
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Popping Noise
i have a 93 F150 longbed... 157k on it and every once in awhile I will get an annoying popping noise from either the front passenger side of the truck or rear passenger side(hard to tell). Usually its when I'm turning or when I'm on city streets, and only when the truck hasn't been drove for a few hours. but what gets me is i can go down the road with the same conditions and sometimes it will pop and sometimes it wont. I have checked out the suspension parts but is there a chance the bed could be loose or something? Or would it be something else?
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my old 86 had the emergency brake tapping against the frame. The part where the single front cable breaks into the two rear cables has some big clunky adjuster dealy. It's supposed to be attached to the frame, but they all come off. I would check that, as it's pretty easy to look at.
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I had this exact same problem on my 96 F250!!! I fought it for 4 years. I took it to a dealer and they told me something about a service bulletin and lose rivets in the frame and cross members. They wanted to charge by the hour to replace rivets until they got lucky. It would pop and crack at certain times and I could not trace it down until one day while driving through my sons yard it would do it quite often. He was walking beside the truck and told me he could hear it. He listened real close and we pinned it down to the left front fender. I went home and crawled under it for closer inspection. There is a bolt on the bottom of the fender and it pins the fender to some other part of the frame or inner fender (can't remember) and I put a socked wrench on it and it was tight..........so I loosened it up some and as I did the fender popped!! It was under some kind of tention!!! I left the bolt just ever so slightly loose and it has never made this noise again. Total cost to me.....nothing $$$$. It was a very anoying noise, made you think it was something in the suspension or steering components. Made you worry.
Losen the bolt and try this!!! good luck
Losen the bolt and try this!!! good luck
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Well I tried the other fixes mentioned and nothing has worked. but now I have noticed, now that i have been parking in our new garage, that everytime i drive out of the garage when the rear passenger side wheel drops off the concrete there is a squeak noise, maybe sounds like a small dog??? lol i dont know how to describe it but i think my bedmounts might be the culprit
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Well thats easy, then move the dog!!! But really, you might have a worn out bushing in either the cab of the bed
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Not to be a downer, but mine did that and it turned out to be a crack in the frame behind the steering gear...
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my 90 F250 makes popping sounds while turning and when I pull into my driveway.. i've gone over the frame front to back and can't find out why.. so i've just learned to live with it..however i did find cracks where the seats bolt to the floor.. had to weld them shut and reinforce them
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94 F150 5.0 short bed here....same popping noise primarily when turning hard to the right or reversing and turning...I always hear it and wonder to myself...damn what is that noise...but i just keep on going...
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Guess I should have written an explanation instead of just posting a link.
Please read this article, and follow the directions. Takes about 20 minutes and in my case all those strange poping sounds, when turning, disappeared.
http://www.troublecodes.net/articles...d_trucks.shtml
Please read this article, and follow the directions. Takes about 20 minutes and in my case all those strange poping sounds, when turning, disappeared.
http://www.troublecodes.net/articles...d_trucks.shtml
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I've got one too. Although it never does it with suspension flex, only when accelerating from a stop and then again when it goes into second gear. Been trying to track it down for years. I think it may be the rear springs. Anyone else got a clue?
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