Balancing Half and drive shafts
Melting Slicks
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Re: Balancing Half and drive shafts (Xracer)
Drifting
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Re: Balancing Half and drive shafts (topless68)
The driveshaft is a must do item when it comes to balancing. As far as the halfshafts go, it is only needed for sustained high spped driving(100mph +). I had mine done anyway and can tell you there is no noticable difference at my normal highway cruising speed of 85mph.
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Re: Balancing Half and drive shafts (Xracer)
The guy who built my transmission went to Engineering school with my brother, This guy got Straight A's, has a photographic memory and had his pick of jobs out of school. He now works out of his garage rebuilding transmissions....:D
Anyway, he says that you cannot balance a driveshaft off the car since you are negelecting the front and rear yokes. He also said that there is no one he knows of that can balance the driveshaft ON the car...
He IS working on a way but basically DON'T mess with the driveshaft balance!
Anyway, he says that you cannot balance a driveshaft off the car since you are negelecting the front and rear yokes. He also said that there is no one he knows of that can balance the driveshaft ON the car...
He IS working on a way but basically DON'T mess with the driveshaft balance!
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Re: Balancing Half and drive shafts (427V8)
I don't know about that. There are plenty off drive shaft shops tha tspecialize in this. Mostly truck shafts due to the length and size. The front and rear yokes are very small compared to the rest of the shaft. They might have a slight amount of imbalance but not enough to notice. (unless you are Gkull running his driveshaft about a bazillion rpm). If you can't balance them how come they all come with weights on them for balancing?
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Re: Balancing Half and drive shafts (427V8)
Anyway, he says that you cannot balance a driveshaft off the car since you are negelecting the front and rear yokes. He also said that there is no one he knows of that can balance the driveshaft ON the car...
He IS working on a way but basically DON'T mess with the driveshaft balance!
He IS working on a way but basically DON'T mess with the driveshaft balance!
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Re: Balancing Half and drive shafts (427V8)
It's balanced on the car at the factory aparently...
Just something to think about, it's what he told me...
Just something to think about, it's what he told me...
Balancing my driveshaft is one of my winter projects. Planning on pulling the front yoke with it and replacing the u-joints to get it as well balanced as possible.
Dave
