Clicking noise when wheel turned & driving/reversing at slow speeds

My 2021 Taco started making this odd slow ticking noise when driving/reversing at slow speeds (2 secs apart & stops when I come to a stop) & it primarily occurs when when the steering wheel is turned in either direction—sounds to be coming from upper driver side near the steering column. Any one else is experience this weirdness?

 

Stock sized tires?
I’m wondering if you went larger and have a slight rub,,, since you mentioned when turning. Just a guess though

 

How many miles? Bad CV joint?

 

Sounds like a CV joint to me.

 

I actually swapped the stock tires for 265/65/17 & had a 2in front lift & 1in the rear (TRD Lift Kit — PT84K-35221)

I put about 2k on the new set up & only now did the weird clanking start to kick up…

 

Just hit the 5k mark…

 

That’s still stock size so probably not the tires

 

Pretty soon for a CV joint to go south.....but that's what your description sounds like.

 

weird q, but have you checked the mudflaps and or splashguards to make sure they're fastened securely?

 

Did you find the issue to be the CV joint ? Pretty low miles for that.

 

could be the egcs or however it's spelled bearing

 

Bad radiator support bushings

 

I had a clicking noise while turning which ended up being a bad hub bearing. Got it replaced and the sound is gone.

 

Ok so, good news is the I found the issue (resolved quite a while ago, sorry for the late response!).
The bad/dumb news is that I’m guessing my local Toyota dealership is incompetent as hell. I brought my truck in for the Toyota care oil change (I’ll now be doing this myself…) and what I am guessing is that the mechanic must’ve taken the entire trd skid plate off instead of just getting to the oil filter via the little window. When putting it back on they must’ve not torqued to spec…I checked myself, re-torqued to spec and you betcha, no more sound!

Thanks for all the detective work here, y’all!