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Suspension New Springs installed, now shake/vibration

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Old Sep 13, 2010 | 07:48 PM
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New Springs installed, now shake/vibration

I just got my H&R springs installed and they look great. Drive smooth but when I do 2nd, 3rd or 4th gear pulls to redline I get a shake/vibration through the entire body. Cruising around I dont feel it. I'm waiting a few weeks to get aligned. Would the aliment cause that or maybe the wheel bolts weren't torqued properly. Any one else have this problem with their new springs? springs?
 
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Old Sep 13, 2010 | 07:59 PM
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Some people get it some people don't after lowering. Looks like you got it. There are many discussions about this in the suspension forum. I'd investigate there are see what's up.
 
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Old Sep 13, 2010 | 09:12 PM
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Thanks. I just saw this thread after I made my post.

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...installed.html
 
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Old Sep 14, 2010 | 07:32 PM
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I will still get the alignment.
 
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Old Sep 14, 2010 | 08:13 PM
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I will still get the alignment.

Yea I'm going to do that. It seems a little better today after I drove it some more.
 
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Old Sep 15, 2010 | 01:49 PM
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Several threads on "weird vibration"

Best guess as of now, this is due to a harmonic induced vibration in the half shafts. It varies car to car. Only fix is to put it back stock. It would be an interesting experiment to play with compliant mass dampers on the half shafts and see if a fix can be found.
 
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