04 Silverado Creeking

[DamonG]

My 04 ECRB 2wd is driving me crazy. It is creeking like a old house from the front drivers side. I have greased the sway bar bushings, and ball joints. It will not do it if I push is up and down but will do it when I move forward and apply the brakes. Both in forward and reverse. I thought maybe it was the e-brake cable but it sounds forward of that. I dont know. It is nuts. It is embarrasing when you drive. The clunk is not bad at all but this loud creeking is very annoying. Thanks in advance.

[Zembonez]

My 04 ECRB 2wd is driving me crazy. It is creeking like a old house from the front drivers side. I have greased the sway bar bushings, and ball joints. It will not do it if I push is up and down but will do it when I move forward and apply the brakes. Both in forward and reverse. I thought maybe it was the e-brake cable but it sounds forward of that. I dont know. It is nuts. It is embarrasing when you drive. The clunk is not bad at all but this loud creeking is very annoying. Thanks in advance.

A similar problem on 2 of my trucks turned out to be body mounts creaking. If I remember right there is a cab mount up front close to your left foot when you are in the truck. I think this was the sousce of my noise. Take an impact and loosen all of the cab mounts slightly, then wiggle the cab back and forth to settle it in position. Tighten the bolts good and tight with the impact and see if your noise isn't gone. It worked for me on both trucks although I had to do it again on one after a year or so. Never had the problem again.

[fossil]

Do you have nerf bars installed? I believe there is a tsb on that. Mine (05 Z-71) did the same thing as you are describing and it ended up being the nerf bars. The dealer lubed up the mounting bushings and re-torqued the hardware which fixed the problem. I could have have sworn that my balljoints were shot when it was making that noise, but it was a brand new truck right off the dealers lot.

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Mine was doing it about a year ago. Turned out it was the upper shock bushing. It was allowing the shaft to touch metal, squeaking at times.

[DamonG]

No nerf bars. I have read about that. I have seen two different things. Shock mounts and lower control arm bushings. I have not heard anything about the cab mounts. Although I did take the one loose and it had tons of rust on the lower part. I cleaned it up, lubed it but nothing. It is definatly coming from the drivers side front area. It rained this morning. I am going to try to lube the bushings on the control arm and if that fails I will get new front shocks. The factory ones are a little to soft for me.

[stillen]

And here I thought the creek was standard on my truck...... hmmm

[Sir Dan]

I have the same noise coming from the front driver's side ('05 ECSB 4x4). Mine is more of a squeak and I can push up and down on the truck and make it squeak so next time in to the dealer I'll show them. It's really bad when driving slow thru parking lots and such! Oh well, just another annoying thing about this truck to add to my ever growing list.....When factory warranty is up, this one is going bye bye for sure!

[slemmer]

If you feel a "clunking" sound underneath the floorboard, it's likely your body mounts. There's a TSB out on it where they shim up the bushings. Had mine done last week and now it's back to normal. Noticed more when I turn left or right and the cab rolls to the opposite end.

[ewiski]

check where the brake cable goes through the frame on the drivers side right under the truck near the body mount.on mine the cable jacket was worn through and sqeaking.i just put some new rubber between the cable and the frame.