Loud ticking

[Reason]

When I drive past 30ish MPHs I get this tapping/ticking sound coming from my drivers side front wheel. For the life of me I can't figure it out. I've taken the rim off so many times and jiggled and whacked at shit and everything seems solid. The only thing I can think of is a lose pad (which seem tight) because when it taps and I hit the brake it stops. It almost sounds like my rim is going to fall off. Any ideas? I'll try to get a video of it at some point.

[2.5GT]

Sticky weight hitting on caliper?
Loose caliper?
Shims fell of pads?
Sway bar bushings loose?
Bent backing plate?
Bad wheel bearing? shaving ice sound?

[Reason]

Sticky weight hitting on caliper?
Loose caliper?
Shims fell of pads?
Sway bar bushings loose?
Bent backing plate?
Bad wheel bearing? shaving ice sound?


Out of all of that I checked I found nothing. Even those shims seem tight, the pads hardly move. Caliper is secured, but like I said, if I tap the brakes it goes away then comes back. And I hear a pop of sorts (could be related, or not) on the same side. Was thinking it was a bad strut, but wtf I'm banging my head on the wall with this.

[2.5GT]

If it was a bad strut, go drive on a bumpy road. It'll def. make some weird noise.

And are you turning at 30mph? or just driving straight?

axles?

[Lone_legacy]

The exact same thing you describe has been happening to my 97 lgt for a couple months now. I thought it was the pads rattling around, yet when I checked them they were secure. I did find that one of the caliper lock pins was ungreased and the rubber boot was ceased. I noticed play from side-to-side motion which may have contributed to the clicking noise. I freed up the boot and applied a liberal amount of brake grease to the pin. This caused the "clicking" sound to diminish, but it is still there, just less pronounced. It has been annoying the hell out of me. I would love to hear from anyone who has successfully remedied this problem.

[Reason]

Yea maybe I will take the caliper off and grease it up. I rather change everything out brand new to know for sure.

As for the axle I had the noise for some time now and swapped the axle a month or two back. If it were the wheel bearings I would suspect a more grinding popping noise rather than rattle and ticking.

[Huffer]

Frozen caliper that gets bumped by a pad/rotor until you hit the brake.

Take the brakes apart and see if there's any cyclical wear on the rotors/pads...

[MacSTi]

I just had to replace both my rear calipers. Both were frozen and realized that both front tie rods are rusted and no grease because the boots were ripped. I got the ticking because my wheel was moving when driving.

[Reason]

Problem solved! It was the pads jiggling around like a skeleton on a tin roof. I got more looks from that than from my exhaust! lol

Edit: So I guess I should say how, for future reference. I bent in the metal tabs the hold the pads in the caliper bracket :smt023

[2.5GT]

Bam! i knew it, see 3rd suggestion in my OP :lol:

Glad you got it fix.

[Lone_legacy]

Hmm. When I took apart my front brake assembly I found that the original pad clips and shims were missing. The pad simply sits in the bracket and the caliper holds it in place. Is this an issue? I figured the previous owner discarded them during a past brake job. Was it the pad clips that you bent in or the bracket? Perhaps the absence of the clips is causing the noise in the caliper? Let me know what you think.

[Reason]

Yea you should have that clip. I"ll TRY to take a pic, not sure if I can soon though.