Offroadme

well just bought a new steering shaft thought it was the source of my knocking noise when i was driving but i guess i was wrong. replaced it and i still have the noise tightened up the track bar ripped apart the dash and i still have the noise. put on new front sway bar discos the other day so i know it's not them because it was making the noise before that im checked under the dash in the steering column i am about to rip in down to the frame and put it back together piece by piece. i am SHIT OUT OF IDEAS and it's really starting to piss me off don't know what else to do.

sorry i just had to vent a little.

09rubicon

Check the torque on your draglink, and tie rod ends. Mine were woefully loose from the factory.

09rubicon

x2 Good call

seer1

Have you checked whether your steering stabilizer is catching on anything? That's where mine was coming from.

Offroadme

yea i checked the steering stablizer just put in the duel one the other day and it's still doing it. just took apart the hole upper part where the wipers are checked everything under there. it seems like it favors when i turn to the left. and not the right i just don't know what else to check for. i will re check the torque on the drag link again but i don't think it's that i checked last week im just out of ideas and it's really starting to get frustrating.

Offroadme

the u joint cap that your talking about is the black one right. that should be all the way into the axle housing ??

Biff Malibu

Try greasing the steering shaft

Offroadme

it's not the steering shaft brand new

sukemecuke

I would try this guys advice. I don't even own a JK yet and that's the first thing I thought of. They are prone to make all kinds of noise even brand new off the lot. So new wouldn't mean much in this case. There is a write up I believe about where to put grease and what to use floating around here. Worth a cheap easy try, with little effort put into it. It sounds like you've wasted tons of time taking shat apart and putting it back together.....this would prolly take substantially less time to rule out.

Offroadme

yea i greased it last night at about 11:30 and it's still making the noise so that def not the problem i drove all the way to work this morning trying to figure out where it is coming from and it's def on the drivers side somewhere. just don't know where it's coming from