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The bushing is a poly mount for this from Bronco Graveyard. I tried to find a rubber one but couldn't turn one up. Top plate is a factory part, the frame bracket is a piece of angle iron. It has a fixed yoke on the trans, I can't get any movement out of the driveshaft slip.Do you have a dial indicator that you could mount somewhere and check to see if the driveshaft is even straight? I'd expect yokes to be out of phase on my own work. That's awful sloppy for a shop to produce something like that and charge you for it. I would have them fix that.
Any slop in the slip yoke? I've had some that were pretty sloppy that would vibrate on acceleration or deceleration.
How's your 205 attached to the frame?
My junk has so many vibrations and noises these days that I kinda stopped trying to fix them.
It wouldn't be such a big deal but it would be fun to wind it out once in awhile, I didn't V8 swap a Ranger to shift at 3k RPM.
I have been thinking about how to do it and how to actually get it to see something useful. I can see it wind up some but it kinda has to to a certain degree. Right now it is on jackstands as I redo the parking brake cables and install the rear sway bar.Didn't you go pro it before and see it wind up.... maybe try to go pro again.
I wish I would have gopro'ed it with the whooped '09 springs with the blocks for comparison sake... but the vibration is the same with both.
I don't have anything like that.You might need something like this... maybe you do already if that is the case maybe those joints are defective.
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The engine is nothing that exotic, it is just a stock old half wore out Crown Vic 302 with an HO cam and E7 heads. The engine the rear springs had from the factory would have had more power.
Never heard of one. The driveshaft is out of a 1999ish Ranger.Do they use a damper like the R1 on the 2.3 drive shafts?