Diff Drop Brackets

[tomdietrying]

Ryan,
What speed do you hear the vibration? I'm hearing a little something around 63 mph. I'm not sure if it's the normal vibration since the lift or a new one.
Peace.
Tom
012009

[tom4bren]

Tom - tried to pm you & your box was full. Tried to email you but it was rejected.

Ryan - since your vibration started after you lifted, I'm guessing that your best be will be to do the diff drop soon (you'll be wanting to do that anyway to save your CVs). Try shooting some grease in the U-Joints as well. If the vibration continues after that, move on to the next likely culprits.

BTW - have your wheels balanced - you may have thrown a weight. Sometimes it's the simplest of things that cause the biggest problems.

[tom4bren]

Just got 'em.

Pix are in my gallery

[ZEUS]

Tom, WTH! Did you coat those things with black chrome or what?! Sparkle from Hell!

[tom4bren]

It's an anti friction coating that is supposed to provide me with 0.01% increase in throttle response.

Actually, the guy who welded them runs the spray booth in our big machine shop so I rekin he's kinda anal about making sure everything is well painted before he delivers. I was thinking about shooting them Proton with a rattle can before install but haven't decided. I've never been concerned with how the under side of my vehicles look but thought that if I wanted it nice looking later ... now was the time.

[tom4bren]

Still haven't installed the brackets yet. Was planning on doing it tomorrow but weather isn't cooperating. I did manage to clean things up a little so that I can take some pix of the CVs before & after. Things were pretty dirty down there since the inner boots came loose & tossed grease everywhere.

I dropped off the crossmember to the welder. I'll post pix of the drop brackets when available.

[LittleBeast]

Ryan,
What speed do you hear the vibration? I'm hearing a little something around 63 mph. I'm not sure if it's the normal vibration since the lift or a new one.
Peace.
Tom
012009

I hear the vibration only when I get off the throttle, or am on steady/no acceleration, normally around 2300 rpms or yeah right around 55-64mph.

Ryan - since your vibration started after you lifted, I'm guessing that your best be will be to do the diff drop soon (you'll be wanting to do that anyway to save your CVs). Try shooting some grease in the U-Joints as well. If the vibration continues after that, move on to the next likely culprits.

BTW - have your wheels balanced - you may have thrown a weight. Sometimes it's the simplest of things that cause the biggest problems.

Yeah I have been greasing the U-joints ever since lift and it does decrease the noise slightly, but it comes back in one day of driving.

Here is where I explained it when I 1st noticed it:
http://www.vehicross.info/forums/sho...t=13537&page=2

[tom4bren]

Anyone interested in the diff drop, the instructions are now in the Download section.