creaching noise in rear of patrol

Dunno why it would have just started, but suggest you check if the 35's are rubbing on the inside of the rear mudguard. If you have standard Nissan wheels, this can be a problem when they are at full suspension compression. Mate of mine had the same thing with his 265/75's MT/Rs and a 2" lift.
My ROH Sunraysias have a 20mm wider offset than the standard wheels and provide more scope for this sort of problem.
If there's no sign on the upper inside of the guard of any scraping, then I'm sorry, but I have no idea what it could be.
Cheers
Roachie

Brent

Who did your lift? Did it include a body lift or just springs? Make sure that the blocks they used for the body lift (if one was done) are the same size as the sections of body they are meant to support - especially at the rear. I had mine done and they used small blocks that didn't spread the weight on the body-side mounts well enough. They split and cracked the body, and it needed re-welding around the edges of the new blocks after just a few hundred km's.

Failing that, you may just have a lot of abrasive dust left in the rear trailing arm bushes - or others in the vicinity....

Hi, I hate noises/rattles/creaks. Could it be the rear door rubbing on its stop ?
Will

Hi Brent,
Its a guessing game when it comes to this kind of thing mate. But from what you wrote i can only think it was caused by your weekend away. Personally I'd be checking everything at the rear of the GU, could even be a piece of steel or a branch stick stuck in an arm somewhere thats rubbing on ur wheel or surrounding area. Possibly something coming loose after bottoming out while offroad. Also from what i read, in my opinion, Im pretty sure its tyre related due to the size your running. Mudflaps, inner guard fittings or something of that nature sounds to be the cause. Also check your rear calipers, sometimes the clips that hold your pads in can snap and screech as they rub on the rotor, this happened to me a while ago.
This is what i would be looking for, but not hearing the noise is difficult to tell.
Do a general check of everything in the rear end, look for scuffing marks and the likes.
Hope its a simple fix.
Angelo.

Brent

Try getting right under the vehicle, get one or 2 persons with substantial weight to stand on the rear of the vehicle and bounce up and down - may help to be under the car when it squeaks to help pinpoint the problem.

D-Jack

Find somewhere that stretches the suspension and drive over this area slowly with observers watching and listening closely.
Oh! and you get to learn to live with the IDENTIFIED noises then it's the unidentified ones that annoy.

gday mate

i had the same thing in my maverick with 4 inch lift after i went on some serious tracks one weekend. took it to the mechanic who does everything for me and told him what was happening, like you only happened on driveways etc, he said its the springs turning in the mounts. i ignored it for a few weeks and then it stopped, especially when i went to carlovers and washed the crap out of the car.

just a suggestion mate

cheers
Leayton

Hi Brent, My GU (now 2 years old) has done this since new when I go out my drive or on some other big angle whilst turning and I am pretty sure it has always been the rear doors.

My GQ always had a similiar noise in the rear door locks after a trip away and basically I just cleaned all the dust from around the door seals and the locks, the main area that i used to concentrait on was the plastic locating wedge as this seamed to be the main culpret, a spary of the old magic lubricate in this area seemed to do the trick.
So far my new GUIV has not done it (only four weeks old) but then I have only had one trip away so far.

Good Luck on you search
Treker

Either the barn doors or if outside and I'm assuming you have castor correction and adjustable panhard rods, it may be the extension links to your swaybars loosened off after a good workout. Get under the vehicle with a few spanners and tighten everything. Has happened twice to me now, once with the 3 inch and once with the 4 inch...just settling in.

Cheers.

Check the new shocks. I'm guessing they're oversize. If so, you have to remove a section of plate attached to axle diff housing close to the shock bolt, so that when the diff housing rotates horizontally (as when going over a gutter/dip etc) this bit of plate does not contact the oversized shock.
Remove with angle grinder/cutter. Just a thought.

Have you got a kaymar rear bar fitted i had the same noise and it was that where the rubber is between the bar and the body

G,Day Ive a GU with a H/D lift same prob. the size of coil used being of a larger diameter rubs on the top spring housing, its a "U" shaped pressed steel section the leading edge grates over the coil on compression of the spring, just looking for a rub mark on the coil and hacksaw/grind the bkt

cheers SthnExp4wdclub.