Patrol Vibration

Hi All,

Richard from South Africa here - very nice forum you guys have here.

If you are ever planning a bush experience in and around SA pop around to www.nissan4x4.co.za - good bunch of guys - lots of local knowledge for 4x4 ing trips / advice - they even allow cruisers and others :)

To my question though - I have a 97 Patrol SGL 4.2 petrol (thirsty thirsty) (equivalent to your GQ I believe - Square shape) that has an annoying vibration at about 100km/h (maybe 10 k ph eityher way). I have annoyed the cr@p out of my local tyre merchant getting them to balance and re-balance / check alignment etc. It doesnt really change it.

It also tends not to vary under accelaration / decellaration and although i can feel the vibration throught the steering wheel, the steering wheel itself doesnt shake as such.

The model came std with 15 inch rims and I am running 31x10.5 x 15 bBF goodrichs - - all pretty new and in good nick.

Could this be some kind of driveshaft vibration ?

Any feedback / similar experiences anyone has would be much appreciated.

cheers