Thread: help - vibration problems on Rangie

Er I would change the uni and see if the vibration is gone.
Oil from the diff is not normal, pinion seal.
The loose nut will give a clunk on take off but not usually a vibration.
Maybe your ball joint is also stuffed. check it for movement with a tyre lever or big screwdriver.( this will not usually cause a vibration)
Guess- maybe you put the rubber bushes in incorrectly, although I do not know how. Its always best to go back to what you did immediately prior to the problem starting. Flange goes to back of chassis mount if I recall. Look in the manual.
regards Philip A

G'day Walker,

It may not be related at all.... but I had a vibration that started between 70 and 80km/h... looked for sometime - before I realised that there was a large clump of dry mud stuck on the inside of one of my rims ( it was stuck like cement). ops: ops:


Cleaned it it off... no more vibration. It could be something simple like that.

Just a thought...

Mark

Adam I would stick a set of road tyres on yr rangie before u start pulling it apart...... simex tyres tend to vibrate at the best of times they develop flat spots when they have been sitting for ages......

I have a set f 33" bridgestones in my garage laying around if you want to do some testing pm me

I get paranoid when I have been driving around on my simex too long and when I put the roadies back on all the vibrations are gone. apart from that check for mud in side the rims as Bytemrk said
trailing arm bushes wont vibrate they will just rear steer... only other thing that i could be is a tail shaft that has been landed on and bent out of shape a few mm will also do it.

HTH
Mick

You didn't pull the shaft completly apart at the slip joint and change the phase of the unis?

(Clutching at straws)

:?

Thanks everyone, good to get lots of comments and ideas.

-No I didn't change the phase on the tailshaft
-I had high pressure washed the car last week and did not notice any lumps
- When I wrote this question I already had a couple of uni's planning to change them. I changed them this arvo and it seems that the vibration is gone so an easy fix.

The uni did seem like the logical problem but there did not seem to be any play in them. Even when I pulled the tailshaft out I still did not find any lateral play in the uni. I would have thought with the vibration as bad as it was (very bad) that the uni would have been almost falling apart??

thanks.

High pressure wash 8O ! , that may be it.
If your rims were balanced with dried mud and stuff on them the last time
and then you blow it off down the track with water it will upset this balance.
hope this helps :wink: .

Originally posted by walker
Thanks everyone, good to get lots of comments and ideas.

-No I didn't change the phase on the tailshaft
-I had high pressure washed the car last week and did not notice any lumps
- When I wrote this question I already had a couple of uni's planning to change them. I changed them this arvo and it seems that the vibration is gone so an easy fix.

The uni did seem like the logical problem but there did not seem to be any play in them. Even when I pulled the tailshaft out I still did not find any lateral play in the uni. I would have thought with the vibration as bad as it was (very bad) that the uni would have been almost falling apart??

thanks.

washing is for ppl with too much time...... just let it dry and fall off

good that you found the problem wouldnt want you pulling out of yr own trip next week!!

Mick

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Yep I agree and normally do. I washed it last week only because it was going in to the exhaust place to get a new exhaust and I wanted them to be able to see what they were doing.