05 cummins isx leaking anti freeze

There is some normal backlash in the diffs. I wonder if you could stand on the steps under the drivers door and just grab on to the grab handle and try shanking the whole cab and see if your noise happens. Maybe a cab mount, or where the steering shaft goes through the firewall, or maybe the exhaust flex pipes groaning when they are moving. Check all your axle ubolts and torque rods to for looseness. With the engine off, have someone wiggle the steering wheel back and forth and inspect the steering gear and all linkages. Repeat with the engine running and turn the wheels all the way side to side and see if the frame rails are moving excessively between the rail and rad and rail and engine mounts. Check all the frame rail huck bolts to make sure they are tight. Loose ones tend to have rust trails streaking down from them. You may have a loose cross member to frame rail joint. I hope you find it. Maybe if all else fails, try to set up a video camera and record the noise.

 

I have changed probably a couple hundred over the years. Fortunately I change them when the truck is on the alignment rack. Changing them with the truck on the floor is hard. To get the end to fall out of the ackerman arms I hammer on the ends of the ackerman arm itself. I don't use forks, don't have any. Our alignment rack allows me to stand up under the front of the truck, so I can take a good swing at them from underneath. With the truck on the floor you would at least have to turn out the wheel to get a good swing at it. Once it is separated you still have to be able to reconnect it and move the wheel to get them lined up. I don't see that being too easy without jacking up the front end. You still have to do a front end alignment, never rely on counting turns and a tape measure only gets you in the ball park. Any competent alignment shop should be able to replace a pair of tie rod ends in under an hour. For the headache, I would just have a shop do it.

 

I forgot to mention about the tie rod ends... if you are replacing both, check into the price for a complete tie rod bar with the ends. Believe it or not, most times it is cheaper to get a complete new bar with new ends versus just replacing the ends!!!

 

Your welcome, anytime!

 

IF you have someone hold the clutch pedal to the floor and pump some grease into it while it is spinning sometimes this works better than just greasing it. In other words with the motor running. If you can warm up the grease gun that also helps. Just throw it in the wifes kitchen oven for a while,i'm sure she will understand.