Tail shaft balancing

Post by **4x4Monkey** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:35 pm

OK about 2 weeks ago i had to change the uni joints (

anyway i havd the intire shaft out and was getting the fuckers out as they had rusted in

and i turned to grab the hammer off the wall and some out the shaft tilted down and the fucking shaft fell out of the slip joint.compltley fell out

at this point i shouted a few bad words and the dick next door abused me lol

thing is i forgot to mark the fucker..... as i had no intention of pulling the slip joint out
Now i had to take a guess and well its out........ as soon as i hit 90 the vibration starts and its not good............
Am i gonna have to get the shart spun and re-balance or what

Post by **Sic Lux** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:58 pm

did you put the clips into help centralise the caps. check its all sitting cental in the casing all caps sit even in the housings slip yoke shouldnt really matter. mate of mine had a vib at around the same speed and it was just a bit of mis-alingment

Post by **crack** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:07 am

all u may need to do is just realign it as sic lux said. ive just got a new tailshaft on after bending the old one. it still needs a lil tweak. if this fails u may want to pull it apart again and have another crack. balancing your looking at around $90

Post by **Bumpy45** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:48 pm

You can do what crack said first, then if that doesn't workput a hose clamp on the tail shaft and go for a run. Move it around until you find a spot where the vibration stops.

Post by **4x4Monkey** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:16 pm

I'll grab some stick on mag wheel weight from work and see if i can balance it out

if that dont work then i'll get a pro to fix it up

Post by **Sic Lux** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:49 pm

why not mark your shaft both sides of the slip pull it apart turning it a spline at a time untill it gets better or worse and keep going till its good if you have tried the other things bit of a stuff round 90 bucks or a bit of time.

Post by **Shadow** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:28 am

Sic Lux wrote:why not mark your shaft both sides of the slip pull it apart turning it a spline at a time untill it gets better or worse and keep going till its good if you have tried the other things bit of a stuff round 90 bucks or a bit of time.

this is what id suggest.

turn it 2 or 3 splines at a time tho till she gets sweet then fine tune.

Post by **cloughy** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:27 am

Uni joints have to be phased correctly, as in pull slip joint apart and the innermost cap holders as in the ones attached to the shaft itself should be in the same posi as each other, if there out of phase they fight each other

Post by **Shadow** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:35 am

cloughy wrote:Uni joints have to be phased correctly, as in pull slip joint apart and the innermost cap holders as in the ones attached to the shaft itself should be in the same posi as each other, if there out of phase they fight each other

they should cancel eachother out no matterhow they are aligned. (in theory)

Post by **cloughy** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:11 am

Shadow wrote: (in theory)

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