Balance Masters
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I have not but for that cost or less a typical drive shaft shop can balance yours. My last one cost me $50 and a week of time. Mainly because I brought it the first day of snow plow season.
mopar head
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Only one I know of around here is about a hour away, so 4 hrs. driving and probably same price.
There is the 2 hose clamp trick.
Alows you to rotate the mass around the drive shaft. Some experimenting required.
Set the car up on jack stands, put a glass of water on the hood and watch it shake. As you move the weights around the drive shaft it either gets better or worse.
When you locate the positions that create the least amount of vibration, then you are close to being balanced.
Next step tape on a weld on weight in the position of where you had the hose clamps. Test again better /worse > slight moves to the least vibration. Then weld it on...
Or you can just take it in and get it professionally balanced, depends on how far out of balance it is. When the pros do it they straighten the driveshaft to zero runout first, then they balance the shaft after it is straight.
It's all about getting rid of unwanted vibration.
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Alows you to rotate the mass around the drive shaft. Some experimenting required.
Set the car up on jack stands, put a glass of water on the hood and watch it shake. As you move the weights around the drive shaft it either gets better or worse.
When you locate the positions that create the least amount of vibration, then you are close to being balanced.
Next step tape on a weld on weight in the position of where you had the hose clamps. Test again better /worse > slight moves to the least vibration. Then weld it on...
Or you can just take it in and get it professionally balanced, depends on how far out of balance it is. When the pros do it they straighten the driveshaft to zero runout first, then they balance the shaft after it is straight.
It's all about getting rid of unwanted vibration.
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mopar head
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Yeah, I watched a few vids. on all that, I`d like to do away with all the trial and error, that rig above should be once and done. This is the only part that concerns me, " This patented liquid metal (mercury) technology works with centrifugal force to help increase bearing life by reducing the heat and running vibrations up to 50% or more."
I think I`d like a result better than 50%, I was hoping somebody here may have tried one and give an honest review.
The place I mentioned that is an hour from me is actually a marine machine shop, their balance machine just looks like a modified lathe to me, I don`t know how it works.
mopar head
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I was going to buy the balance masters ring, they listed a code to get 10% off, but during checkout they was no place to type in the code.
With that erking me off and the shipping
, I decided to take it to the machine shop. This place is like stepping back in time and looks like all the machinery dates from the 40s 0r 50s and even earlier, I could spend hours just checking out that cool old stuff.
Any how the guy was nice enough to fit me ahead of a couple customers, he set it up in the balancer and turned it on and said this is going to take more work than expected, showed me the runout, it was terrible and found the tube needed straightening.
Couple days later I got it today and man it`s so nice to finally have a smooth driveline, I took it out and got it up to 75, no noise, I`m tickled. the 195 I dished out will soon be forgotten and is already replaced with a smile.
With that erking me off and the shipping
, I decided to take it to the machine shop. This place is like stepping back in time and looks like all the machinery dates from the 40s 0r 50s and even earlier, I could spend hours just checking out that cool old stuff.Any how the guy was nice enough to fit me ahead of a couple customers, he set it up in the balancer and turned it on and said this is going to take more work than expected, showed me the runout, it was terrible and found the tube needed straightening.
Couple days later I got it today and man it`s so nice to finally have a smooth driveline, I took it out and got it up to 75, no noise, I`m tickled. the 195 I dished out will soon be forgotten and is already replaced with a smile.
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