Ok

Mine creaked like a pig after fitting chasis brace, took it to Wilkinsons for a wheel alignment a few weeks later & it turned out the nuts weren't tight enough.

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Beaten up old 98 Gen 2 Liberty, 13.0, stock V3 STI running gear.
07 Transit motor home
69 VF & 70 VG Valiants needing full restoration
Yamaha Zooma 50cc rocket hopefully going with the Transit.

^ Not being tight enough could be a possibility for the nut that holds the control arm to the alk unit as i couldnt get a socket over it and use a breaker bar. It was tight as hell when i took it off using a spanner and hammer. I dont think i got it back on as tight as it was.

All other bolts to the chassis were put back on pritty tight, not super tight but well tightened using a breaker bar.

Would it be unsafe to take the car for a quick lap or 2 without the u-brace on?

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It was the control arms that were not tight enough on mine, go to Supercheap & buy one of their extendable wheel braces, they come with two double ended sockets 17/19 & 21/23mm, cost about $15 & will fit just about anything under a Subi.......Bloody brilliant tool for the price.

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Beaten up old 98 Gen 2 Liberty, 13.0, stock V3 STI running gear.
07 Transit motor home
69 VF & 70 VG Valiants needing full restoration
Yamaha Zooma 50cc rocket hopefully going with the Transit.

Ok, so yesterday i refitted the ALK but this time using grease on the bushes, however, the creeking is still there.

Same procedure goes:

- Took ALKs off
- Greased up what needed to be greased
- Put them back on loosely
- Sat the car back on the ground and bounced the front end
- Tightened the alk to chassis bolts FIRST, then the control arm bolt (tightening was done when car was still on the ground)

After jacking the car up and down several times trying to find out what was actually creeking, we found that the ALK seems to be so solid that it would provide no flex at all, causing the chassis to creek. Creeks were only sounding on the left hand side.

We found this out by having the car on stands and jacking the control arm up and down. When i loosened the nut that holds the control arm to the ALK, the creek would go away because the arm could move in and out of the ALK hole(only needed to move slightly). When i say loose, i dont mean loose as in about to fall off, but looser than what it was (about one turn looser than tight, so still pritty tight).
I then lowered the car back down, and there was no creeking when lowering and raising the car. Problem solved i thought.

But then i noticed i get the same chassis creek when having the car on the floor and having the wheels full right and full left. Now im thinking what could this be due to? I never got these creeks when the stock control arm mounts were on so im saying its definitely related to the ALK i put on.


My question is, if i put the ALKs on and drive it down to get a wheel alignment, would the alignment get all the calibration right so everything is all good and straight with no creeks? Or does the ALK just sound like its not a good fitment?

Anyone else had these issues with the Hypertec ALK or any other ALK for that matter?


Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers
-Nick

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