T-Wood

I have done some searching and found a lot of posts about diagnosing a popping noise but none of them pertained to newly replaced parts.

Last weekend I changed the parts listed below on my 2007 FX4. (all with Moog)
- Lower Ball Joints
- Upper Control Arms (with new ball joints and bushings)
- Inner and Outer Tie Rod Ends
- Sway Bar End Links
- Sway Bar Bushings

My ball joints needed replaced and I thought while I had everything apart I would change out a few other things that had some wear. Once I got it all put back together, I noticed a popping noise while turning left at slow speeds.

Any ideas??

DarrinT04

did you torque all the nuts/bolts to the right specs?

JCR 56

Did you put the truck at ride height when tightening everything?

T-Wood

To my knowledge everything was torqued correctly but I still need to go back through and double check.

Everything was originally tightened while the truck was on jack stands. Was that a mistake?

Tonight I took the sway bar off and still had the same noise while turning so at least I have eliminated the sway bar bushings and end links.

Another thing that I forgot to mention in the original post is that I intended on changing out the lower control arm bushings but when I got the nut off, the bolt seemed to be seized to the bushing. I soaked everything with PB Blaster while doing the rest of the work and at the end of the weekend the bolts were still stuck so I just left them alone and put everything back together to go to work the next day (after an alignment of course).