Is this a balancer on the driveshaft?

ed1le · May 9, 2006

My buddy has a 94 or 5 V6 w/ a 5-speed and has been getting vibrations from his transmission. He looked under it & said there's what appears to be a balancer around the ujoint up front. It's a steel ring with a rubber insert. Is this a balancer from the driveshaft that's made it's way forward or is it supposed to be around the ujoint? Here's a pic he took w/ his camera phone. Thanks guys!

dannydoo · May 9, 2006

it dont look right.
That ring should not be covering the u joints.

freakyfast95gts · May 10, 2006

nope, should be back around the yoke area

95trippleblackconv · May 10, 2006

this is what mine looks like
its the stock aode driveshaft on a t5

ed1le · May 10, 2006

Yikes, so it's actually part of the yoke, guess he needs to get a new yoke. thanks for the pic!

95trippleblackconv · May 10, 2006

the v6 could be his picture is hard to tell

freakyfast95gts · May 10, 2006

you should be ok for awhile if you take it off and clean the rubber off the yoke, My FRPP alum didnt have one and they are more suseptable(sp) to vibration and harmonic problems the balancer actually is there for an nvh fix because of the noisy drivetrain of the mustangs

SorsCode · May 10, 2006

The V6's do have the balacer weight on them. Why I don't know. I got 3 drive shafts and they all have it, But my Gt auto and 5spd shafts done. So don't panic. Now mine came off once and I couldn't tell a difference.

Danny

Is this a balancer on the driveshaft?

ed1le

dannydoo

freakyfast95gts

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ed1le

95trippleblackconv

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