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Title: Driveshaft vibrations
Post by: jbcollier on Monday,May 30, 2022, 06:56:37 PM

In my search for vibration causes, I seem to have made more.  I bought all new half shafts and had their balance checked at a driveshaft shop.  All good.  Drove 6K and vibrations slowly increased during the trip as well as a curious high frequency growling/rattle sort of sound.  Got home and the new inner yokes were loose on the output shafts (I have a twin link system).  Swapped in the old inner yokes and all is back to normal again.  Yet another thing to watch for!

Title: Re: Driveshaft vibrations
Post by: SwiftDB4 on Monday,May 30, 2022, 10:23:04 PM

I've thought of replacing my inner yokes just because of their age, but after hearing your experience I'll keep my old ones (twin link also).