[Healeys] Rear End Shimmy

Alan Seigrist Blue 100 healey.nut at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 18:50:27 MDT 2007


Good idea but I aligned the splines properly 15 years ago when I
replaced the U-joints then.  No problems until a week ago.

This type of U-joint misalignment would not result in the shimmy I
feel when coasting out of gear.  Perhaps if the splines themselves
were frozen together maybe.....

Alan


- Original message -
The drive shaft is two pieces, the slider and longe

On 6/27/07, david porter <frogeye at swcp.com> wrote:
> The drive shaft is two pieces, the slider and longer distance shaft (or what
> ever others call them). They are joined by a splined shaft which has
> indicator arrows or pointers which must be aligned with one another.  Else
> the universals are "out of time" with one another and will cause a
> noticeable vibration.
> Dave
>
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> The Whaty?
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> ML
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> Subject: [Healeys] Rear End Shimmy
>
>
> > After balancing the usual suspects, the culprit turned out the be the
> > drive
> > shaft splines.
> >
> >
> >
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-- 
Alan

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