quick help and suggestions needed
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quick help and suggestions needed ok finally got my car back on the ground and moving after some upgrades but have some issues going on...
my driveshaft seems to be hitting my safety loop on the spohn short ta crossmember
so here is what was replaced in the equation that might be doing it...
i replaced the spohn crossmember from a dipped one that clears dual exhaust to a flat one because i got sick of the small hump hitting every speedbump and switched to a metal pivit mount from a poly on the ta...
i had also replaced the transmission crossmember for a tubular one from midwest chassis... on that i had to jack the trans up a good bit to get it to mount with my energy tans mount and the crossmember was a good 1/2"+ back from the trans mount so i had to redrill things to get it to mount ( cant recall if i had to do the same thing the last time i had my trans ot with the stock cross member ) also note i run moroso solid mounts so having to push up so much on the trans seemed odd.....
the deriveshaft seems to be hitting on the topside of the safety loop
my driveshaft seems to be hitting my safety loop on the spohn short ta crossmember
so here is what was replaced in the equation that might be doing it...
i replaced the spohn crossmember from a dipped one that clears dual exhaust to a flat one because i got sick of the small hump hitting every speedbump and switched to a metal pivit mount from a poly on the ta...
i had also replaced the transmission crossmember for a tubular one from midwest chassis... on that i had to jack the trans up a good bit to get it to mount with my energy tans mount and the crossmember was a good 1/2"+ back from the trans mount so i had to redrill things to get it to mount ( cant recall if i had to do the same thing the last time i had my trans ot with the stock cross member ) also note i run moroso solid mounts so having to push up so much on the trans seemed odd.....
the deriveshaft seems to be hitting on the topside of the safety loop
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Tomorrow I'm gonna get the car back up on stands and first verify that it is the shaft hitting and then yank out the crossmember and try to do a more precise measure between the new and the original and if there is a differance in mounts call up Midwest and see what they can do or order a torque arm mount trans crossmember and cut the ta mount off like I was originally gonna do.... Right now I'm just trying to tighten down some cooler lines that are leaking some
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Well I was hitting on the weight on the front of my driveshaft.... Ended up taking the rubber pads off the ta crossmember.... Putting the factory trans crossmember back in with a factory mount......unfortunately though it appears that a 60• AN fitting I have coming off the top of my radiator and an inline temp switch are both leaking so I have a temp silicone bandaid on them and will see if it holds and then I'll try to drive it again
