John had the same sort of issue but the whole spring clamp broke no
noise though. Installed after market clamp no rubber isolator and it
still did not make any noise and seemed to help with axle wrap at launch
also seemed to help wheel hop under hard braking in corners
John Bell wrote on 3/11/2004, 1:12 PM:
>
> OK folks, this one actually has me steamed up...
>
> I was dropping my kid off at pre-school today, and noticed that when I
> had a
> little articulation going into the parking lot that the leaf springs
> in the
> back went *grooooan squeek*. It had been doing this a little bit on the
> right side for a while, but today both sides let loose.
>
> I got to work and got out to take a look... the rubber isolators that sit
> between the spring clamps and the actual leaves on the springs were
> shot -
> completely gone. One was so bad the rubber had broken and popped out from
> underneath the clamp. You could literally tear off a chunk and crumble
> the
> rubber in your fingers :-(. NOT GOOD.
>
> So, the old beast sits at the dealer now, waiting for replacement parts.
>
> I have -never- had a vehicle of any kind do this to me before. The truck
> only has 49k miles on it. I find it hard to believe that the material for
> the isolators would be -that- bad.
>
> Has anyone else had this happen to them?
>
> Anyway, the regional manager is going to get a letter in the mail over
> the
> next couple of days. Unacceptable :-(.
>
> Have fun,
> --
> JB - '00 QC SLT+ 4x4 5.9 46RE NV242 3.92LSD Patriot Blue over Driftwood
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