so let me see if i understand this: modified transmission GOOD, modified driveshaft BAD, what am i missing here? so does gm know what they are doing or not?
Re: Clunking from under body Group: alt.autos.4x4.chevy-trucks Date: Sun, Apr 4, 2004, 11:02pm From: snipped-for-privacy@nope.com (Doc) "Elliott" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com... The DS is over 400 miles now, been up to 90 and is as smooth as can be. The old one was never smooth - even when it was serviced by the prior owner. Things really can be "ballenced" by "ballencing them" rather than spinning. My stepfather mounts his own tiers and uses a bubble ballancer (for his race car too). My wife will be towing her car with it (the Sonoma w/ the home-ballanced DS) and carrying a load at the same time when we go to LI, and am not at all worried about it. Plus, I will have the extra S-10 (spare vehicle) ready by then too. It's running fine on those home-machined heads (I do hope to have it 'on the road' by then, and runnin in closed-loop mode). Good thing my Grandfather wasn't affraid to try things either - he even welded an engine block for his first car (so he didn't have to walk to school - over the mountain, cross the stream, in 3 feet of snow, ...). Elliott As usual you're completely missing the point. Because the DS has been altered from the stock design, it will fail the safety inspection. Doesn't matter if it's safe or not, it'll still fail. Doc "Steve W." wrote in message news:... Hey that's another thing I forgot about your modified driveshaft, it will be an automatic failure in LI.