bad balancer? should it ALWAYS cause vibration in neutral?
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Melting Slicks
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bad balancer? should it ALWAYS cause vibration in neutral?
I'm stumped :banghead: (what else is new?) I have a vibration while travelling down the road. It gets more intense from 50-70. It seems to be a a speed related to drive shaft rather than wheels. When I slightly decelerate in gear, it goes away. More intense on accel, still there while coasting in gear. I have all new ujoints and new differential and now a new tranny mount. Motor mounts are 1 year old. I tried rotating the drive shaft at the tranny yoke, 180 degrees. What else is left? The balancer? If the balancer is bad, should the vibration show up when I rev it in park? It doesn't. Could the balancer still be bad? Thanks for any help. The vibration was there before I replaced the diff, but I'm not sure if it worsened or not. The gear howl is gone along with the binding clutch plates
Thanks for any help.
Thanks for any help.
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Burning Brakes
Re: bad balancer? should it ALWAYS cause vibration in neutral? (isosceles)
Sometimes old u joints needs shims to keep them in the center... just a thougth , good luck :steering:
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Race Director
Re: bad balancer? should it ALWAYS cause vibration in neutral? (isosceles)
I almost hate to say this, but a remote possibility is that you may have garbaged the main bearings. Which is not a very good condition but also carries similar characteristics that you described.
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Le Mans Master
Re: bad balancer? should it ALWAYS cause vibration in neutral? (isosceles)
I had a similar vibration on a 71 that I fought for quite a while. It turned out to be a bent rim and a Goodyear tire that was out of round by about 1/4". Whwn I had the tires trued and spun balanced on the car ...problem solved.