ford ranger strange noise

[miker]

ive recently got a strange cracking noise on full right hand lock,on rough ground or pulling out on an angle from a tight gateway etc,just had mot 2 weeks ago, nothing picked up there??noise definately comes from front right hand side, any ideas chaps

[miker]

not been in 4wd when its happened btw

[treequip]

First suspect CV joint

[easy-lift guy]

First suspect CV joint

 

I second that.

easy-lift guy

[miker]

the noise is just one crack,not a continual seires of cracks if that makes sense, if cv was gone surely it would make more than one crack, i could be talking shite tho, thanks for comments

[niftysteve]

steering stoppers rubbing as you was at an angle

[John Shutler]

Steering stoppers

[scraggs]

yep steering stoppers, common fault, just smear a bit of grease on the mating faces

[miker]

cheers lads, nothing too serious then

[roseyweb]

I'd third that Bump stoppers mine does the same