shudder after suspension lift landcruiser

Mick

It's proberly the uni joints making the noise as thay are running at a differant angle tham before the lift,,

try getting the checked or both front and rear dive shafts overhauled

Cheers

Richard

Hi spudit,
Have you tried to work out if its coming from the front or rear?
with free wheeling hubs that shouldn't be to hard to determine.
Is it coming thru steering wheel?

Shane

Hi mate, My 99, 78 troopie had aftermarket susp at standard height and it vibrated like that. I've have had and still do have vehicles with 3 inch susp lift and no vibrations incl troopies. The only one to do it was the 78 series. It also had a collapsed front transfer case output bearing but that wasn't the vibration.
I thought it was the shaft and had it professionally checked -OK rotated tryres -still there, drove in front wheel drive (no rear shaft) still the same so I'm guessing that it was a shaft in the gearbox ir transfer. Anyhow I sold it and never knew for sure what it was. It only had 137000km (really hard miles mostly dirt)
Regards
Dave

Mick
Had avery similar problem after fitting ARB OME suspension to my 93 80 Series with a 50mm lift and Lovell rear springs. The closest
I can come to describing it was driving on the ripple strip on the edge of a freeway but about 25% intensity, came in at about 95 /100 ks and would go away when the speed dropped below
80. Tried everything from wheel and tail shaft balance and having
the front axle pulled down and checked out. Nothing helped. It was also inconsistant which made it very annoying.
After about a year it has completey gone and can run the 80 up to 130 and it all seems OK. I know it doesnt help your problem
because no one could tell me what caused it.
Good luck
Mike B

The vibration is most probalbley due to torsional vibration. This coused by the input and output shafts not being parrallel. The most common cause of this is when the back end is jacked up, the axle assembly rotates slightly causing the diff pinion angle not to be parrallel to the gearbox output shaft.