You could check the balance job by putting the car on a lift or on jack stands and have your lovely assistant run the speed up until you get the vibration, and then use chalk on a stick lightly held to the rotating assemblies (drive shaft and axle shafts and why not do the tires also) to see what is balanced and what is out of balance.
Very respectfully, /s/ Max Dillon '87 300TD 334k miles (Off with the head!) '95 E300 281k miles (daily driving duties) '73 Balboa 20 (High & dry until the head is back on) Charleston SC ________________________________ From: Jim Cathey <j...@windwireless.net> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Mon, March 28, 2011 9:54:05 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: 1987 300SDL Driveshaft > Had the drive shaft removed, checked out and balanced at a specialty shop in > Atlanta, Ga. It was out of balance slightly, and they added a weight to > correct this. Just how familiar are they with 2-piece MB driveshafts? My money's still on that, especially if you are familiar with the different feel of the roughly 3x vibration frequency of drivelines versus anything else. Could the driveline have been mis-phased when it was reinstalled? About 27 wrong ways to line the two pieces up, one right way. See: http://userweb.windwireless.net/~jimc/JSLdline.html -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
