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The famous vibration after doing a lift?

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nickW:
i have recent done a 2" lift to my v8 disco, before the lift i used to get a bit of a clunk out of the drive system when take you up drive, (i don't if this is linked)

anyway when i first did the the lift about 500miles ago there was a little bit of vibration at certain speeds, but this morning it got a lot worse it vibrates quite badly at 40-50mph this happens more in lower gears, im going to get under it later to have look whats wrong, am i right in thinking it could be the UJ's on there way out or should i be looking some where else

burgerman:
This is only my experience , so i will be corrected,   But i had similar symptoms a short while ago, in my case it turned out to be the front prop,  The slider was seized and one of the u/joints after cleaning had some ( not massive) amounts of play,  i picked up a used prop as i could not get my slider to slide any more, and replaced both u/j"s    And in my case it worked for me,  Hope this helps??

nickW:
how can you tell if the slider isn't working, i thought it might of been uj's because of the knocking noise i was getting before

Richie_EB4:

--- Quote from: "nickW" ---i have recent done a 2" lift to my v8 disco, before the lift i used to get a bit of a clunk out of the drive system when take you up drive, (i don't if this is linked)

anyway when i first did the the lift about 500miles ago there was a little bit of vibration at certain speeds, but this morning it got a lot worse it vibrates quite badly at 40-50mph this happens more in lower gears, im going to get under it later to have look whats wrong, am i right in thinking it could be the UJ's on there way out or should i be looking some where else
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Sounds like your prop/uj's..........some guys have no probs when lifting them (me on both of mine) but some have problems........may need to look at a wide yoke prop or the double cardon prop.
But i would try and replace the uj's first and give it a good greasing first.

nickW:
well even before the lift the was a slight clunk when you take up drive as if the UJ's were on the way out

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