haz87

Right got my brakes sorted this evening, took the car down the road and back up. 1st fine, 2nd fine, 3rd car shakes to death, 4th/5th same. got it on stands and fired it up, 1st fine, 2nd fine, 3rd fine upto 3000rpm.

Basically the whole car and i do mean the whole car shakes! Its definitly the gearbox or linkage from that(driveshafts) etc. You can hear like a tappin noise(sounds like tappets) but from the gbox.
If i let off of WOT and let it die down, right at it gets to its idle, the whole engine bounces forwards just once(but doesnt make any extra rev/stallin noise).

The gbox mounts and engine mounts looked fine when i re-fitted the engine. he gearbox is an rst s2 lsd equipped one.
Any ideas to check? as i said the main movement is in 3rd past 3000rpm, 4th and 5th. but in ALL gears it does that last bounce when it drops to idle.

Thanx, Harry

haz87

no ideas
wanna try and fix it tomorow

studabear

u had the driveshafts out? prob if uve fitted a series2 box

check the inner driveshaft joints, unclip the boots an check all 3 bearings are in here where there supposed to be

i damaged 1 on a clio@ work once an it gave a similar trouble, gettin worse the faster the car got

hope it helps, may or may not but good luck


stu

haz87

Ill have a look tho everything is dead secure as i checked if there was movement in the shafts and both seemed fine.

studabear

u mite not feel a movement as in play, whippin the iner boots off is the only way u will see

haz87

ok mate, ill check it tomorow