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Process of elimination, if you haven done the end links yet, remove the entire sway bar, that will tell you if its the sway bar endlinks and help isolate where Pittsburgh coming, from, my experience with these front ends if for the ball joints on these trucks will have a slight tap before a knock, so if its a joint I'd get it done. ASAP its on its last leg.



Tap= grease is gone and wearing at the rubber inside

Knock= rubber is gone metal on metal extremely worn to create clearence
 
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Looks like I know what I need now!

Thanks everyone I will update once I get all the parts in.
 
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Process of elimination, if you haven done the end links yet, remove the entire sway bar, that will tell you if its the sway bar endlinks and help isolate where Pittsburgh coming, from, my experience with these front ends if for the ball joints on these trucks will have a slight tap before a knock, so if its a joint I'd get it done. ASAP its on its last leg.



Tap= grease is gone and wearing at the rubber inside

Knock= rubber is gone metal on metal extremely worn to create clearence

Yah I have the sway bar off now and she still clucks hard. Just going to bite the bullet and do both lower control arms and maybe struts all at the same time.
 

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Yah I have the sway bar off now and she still clucks hard. Just going to bite the bullet and do both lower control arms and maybe struts all at the same time.


Yeah that sounds like ball joints, the control arms squeek really bad well before the clock, its traditional on our rigs to replace the entire upper control arm since it comes as a package and replace the ball joint and bushings on the lower
 

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