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andrew
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 09:32 pm: | 
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How dose the replacement off a little, worn universal joint on the rear shaft effect steering vibs? Replaced today and the car drives like new for me this was at the end off my list, would never off thought this was the problem to my steering vibe. I have a lot to learn.Truck is 95 Disco. |
Craig M. Highland (Shortbus)
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 10:00 pm: |
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Remember in 5th grade Science class when the teacher had you tie a string between two cups, and when the string was tight, you could talk into one cup, and the person across the room with the other cup could hear you?
Same principle applies here. Just because you 'feel' a vibration in one area does not mean that the source is in the same place. The vibrations 'travel' through driveshafts, steering rods etc....
Craig |
andrew
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 12:26 am: |
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Thanks, Graig as I said I have a lot to learn. Trying to fix steering vibe I replaced front bearings, radius arm and panhard rod bushers, also track rod and drag link ball joints had wheels belanced at two different tyre shops. I thought the vib was from the 4inch lift(have DC) vibe was not there after the lift the just developed over time.I think the universel joint may have worn out befor time becouse off the rear shaft angle may look at a DC for the back if vib gets bad again. Truck has 182,000 on it so repacement parts are not so much off a worry. |
Erik Olson (Jon)
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 01:19 am: |
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Andrew,
Did you replace with a true universal joint or with the rotoflex? How much did the part itself set you back?
Erik |
andrew
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 02:16 am: |
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Erik,
I replaced with a universal joint, rotoflex would not last long with the angle a 4 inch lift would put the shaft at. Cost I think around $400AU |
Erik Olson (Jon)
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 06:43 pm: |
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My Rotoflex is cracked and worn - is there a particular brand of U-Joint / Driveshaft you replaced with? |
andrew
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 04:24 am: |
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Erik,
No particular brand of U-J that I know off left it up to the tail shaft shop. Tail shaft was my original shaft just had it modified you will have to buy a flange to replace your current flange as this will not mate up to the new u-j. I recall the shop haveing to machine the new flange back 4mm or to make it fit. Took them about two hours to do the job. The job was cheap compared to the front Double cardan joint, around $1000AU as I recall. |
Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d)
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 08:15 am: |
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Andrew,
How many miles did you have on that shaft? And how many of those were with the 4" lift?
Dean |
andrew
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 05:48 pm: |
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Dean,
Befor the lift I ran about 137,000mile with the rotoflex, went through about 4 or five of them. The lift has been on for two years now and have run around 45,000mile. The u-j that I replaced was the stock joint(not the new one) from new so think it did well to last this long. I think the joint wore out I think becouse of were I park is quite steep and there is lot off weight on the joint just my theory. |
andrew
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 05:55 pm: |
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So to answer your question have done around 45mile with the modified shaft, sorry about that. |
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