Ya I know! No pictures didn't happen.
I had Stinger aligned and the shop found a problem with the thrust angle. Then they realized I had adjustable control arms on the rear. So-— they attempted to adjust the angle and found one of the gyro joints frozen. So they did all of the adjustment from one side.
I didn't like having all of the thread showing on the gyro joints one one side so I dropped the skid plate to access the joint. Yep, it was frozen in the control arm despite using antiseize. I wrapped anything close to the joint in heat shielding foil and put the heat to the control arm joint. Short story, I used a 1 inch open end wrench and a breaker bar on that wrench and broke the hot joint apart.
Counted flats and moved the arms to some what the same threads showing and what appeared to be same thrust angle.
After that I found the Nth Stinger had throw a bolt holding the rear diff skid shield to the Stinger. What that caused was about 35 degrees difference in pinion angle.
Ya, not good! Vibrations were out of sight and I think it caused the left rear shock bolt to back off. It was very loose in the housing.
Got everything fixed and using a BUNCH of 1/2 washers adjusted the stinger/shield difference to give a + 1 degree pinion angle.
Now back to the thread title. Coming out of our development a left turn leads to a winter closure about 9 miles away with no access from roads on the side. (some forest service dirt roads)
I pulled onto the highway and slowly gave Stinger the gas. 40- no vib. 60 no vib. 65-no vib.
75 no vib
. 85
no vib. Stingers speedo only goes to 100-—- got there and pressed the pedal another 500 or so rpm.
. Only had about 2,000 rpm left!
NO FREAKING VIBRATION! Think I may have fixed my problem.
GD this thing is fast! Sorry folks but I have no way of squeezing the steering wheel like a terrified little girl and talking pictures so just take my word for it. Or better yet come take a ride and take pictures for me!
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Frank!
05 Rubicon LJ #009 Sahara slightly modified
I had Stinger aligned and the shop found a problem with the thrust angle. Then they realized I had adjustable control arms on the rear. So-— they attempted to adjust the angle and found one of the gyro joints frozen. So they did all of the adjustment from one side.
I didn't like having all of the thread showing on the gyro joints one one side so I dropped the skid plate to access the joint. Yep, it was frozen in the control arm despite using antiseize. I wrapped anything close to the joint in heat shielding foil and put the heat to the control arm joint. Short story, I used a 1 inch open end wrench and a breaker bar on that wrench and broke the hot joint apart.
Counted flats and moved the arms to some what the same threads showing and what appeared to be same thrust angle.
After that I found the Nth Stinger had throw a bolt holding the rear diff skid shield to the Stinger. What that caused was about 35 degrees difference in pinion angle.
Ya, not good! Vibrations were out of sight and I think it caused the left rear shock bolt to back off. It was very loose in the housing.
Got everything fixed and using a BUNCH of 1/2 washers adjusted the stinger/shield difference to give a + 1 degree pinion angle.
Now back to the thread title. Coming out of our development a left turn leads to a winter closure about 9 miles away with no access from roads on the side. (some forest service dirt roads)
I pulled onto the highway and slowly gave Stinger the gas. 40- no vib. 60 no vib. 65-no vib.
GD this thing is fast! Sorry folks but I have no way of squeezing the steering wheel like a terrified little girl and talking pictures so just take my word for it. Or better yet come take a ride and take pictures for me!
__________________
Frank!
05 Rubicon LJ #009 Sahara slightly modified
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