I just swapped another d15b2 into my car and now there's a loud creaking sound when I'm on the gas and hit a bump.

It sounds like a rusty door hinge opened real quick, and ONLY does it when I'm on the gas and go over a bump. I've taken a look at the suspension, all bolts are tight and are where they belong. Brake dust shield is not touching, axle's installed correctly. Any ideas for me to check? I'm making a 300 mile trip next week & don't want this breaking down on me

 

stock or aftermarket suspension? how many miles are on it?

 

kyb gr2 with some coilovers. Barely lowered. Didn't make any noise prior to swap. unknown miles

 

maybe it's seized then.

 

nope I can push down on it just fine, I can also go over bumps sometimes without hearing the sound, it's more like stress on the frame makes the sound ( dips in the road)

 

check your bushings and endlinks hopefully that's causing it.

 

endlinks for sway bar?

I did notice 1 tire looking crooked with the steering wheel straight, I remember with axles out and lower balljoint out I pushed the brake caliper out of the way, then putting it back I couldn't get that wheel straight.

my wheels look like this / |

 

yea and then I would def get a wheel alignment asap especially if you wanna make that trip lol

 

you think an alignment will take care of that? After I put axles in and torqued the nut down, I pulled the wheel and it went crooked while other one stayed straight. Then it wouldn't go back. So that's why I'm a little worried lol.

And yeah def getting an alignment before the trip

 

yea it will solve it because I had the same issue when I had a shop recently install a new wheel bearing on my LR hub and when putting the hub and wheel back on I noticed right away that my wheels look like what you mention.

Went straight to a shop to get the alignment done, before my LR wheel was at -1.4 and my RR wheel was at -2.5 and that's how it supposed to be (for me at least) so I got the LR wheel back at -2.5 and no more problem for me.

but sad to say that it won't solve your creak noise lol

 

Oo ok that's cool, I'll just turn the stereo up higher then, I thought I messed something up by turning the wheel like that. thanks for the help!