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Keith True · 12-04-2011, 05:41 PM

I'm thinking something like a U-joint.Maybe a broken cap,letting the spider run around off center.Then somewhere along the line it popped back where it belonged,and is running there right now.Where those joints are enclosed and wrapped in grease,they can be pretty bad before you hear anything.If one of the needle bearings in the transmission or driveshaft went bad,I could see it hanging up for a while until the pieces broke up enough to let thing run free.I think you can expect it to come back.Loose metal parts don't repair themselves.A hanging rear brake could do something like that,but you would have seen smoke in a few hundred feet.

12-04-2011, 05:41 PM	#4
Keith True Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Epping N.H. Posts: 3,693	Re: vibration---GONE ???? I'm thinking something like a U-joint.Maybe a broken cap,letting the spider run around off center.Then somewhere along the line it popped back where it belonged,and is running there right now.Where those joints are enclosed and wrapped in grease,they can be pretty bad before you hear anything.If one of the needle bearings in the transmission or driveshaft went bad,I could see it hanging up for a while until the pieces broke up enough to let thing run free.I think you can expect it to come back.Loose metal parts don't repair themselves.A hanging rear brake could do something like that,but you would have seen smoke in a few hundred feet.