If you're talking about the rear "dog bone" that bolts to the diff, then it will depend if you've changed out the stock gears when you did the rear end or not. The weight was designed to dampen vibration in the driveline. Swapping out to higher numeric gearing makes it next to useless anyway, so unless you're picking up any vibration in the dirveline, feel free to leave it off.
Agreed...but the fact remains that the weight is there, to dampen vibrations created by the driveline. With higher numeric gear sets, comes faster driveshaft speeds. With faster driveshaft speeds, comes increased driveline vibration...which at some point makes the dog bone a useless pile of metal and forces the owner to concentrate on balancing the components themselves....not masking them with a heavy steel damper.I believe that is an old internet myth, the part number for the dogbone covers a wide range of gear sets.
Have you any data to disprove my point? It's not rocket science. The faster you spin a driveshaft, the more out of whack it becomes. Higher numeric gear sets, increase driveshaft speed. This is a fact. Consider how "thrown together" our Fox's are, along with the spongy rubber isolators and bushings that separate our drive train components and it's no wonder that almost every Fox I’ve ever been in is plagued with driveline vibration. Fords answer....well, a well built and balanced driveline and suspension would drive the overall cost of the vehicle up and hurt sales, so....band aid the issue with a big, heavy weight on the pinion to absorb vibration and call it "good enough".At what point does it become "a useless pile of metal"? Do you have data that shows this? Like, the increase in vibration for different gear sets.
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You do realize that this article just proved my point and backed up everything I said, right?
You do realize that this article just proved my point and backed up everything I said, right?
I was nice and edited out most of my initial reply.
I thought that I left enough to make my view obvious. Clearly, I didn't.
Here's part of my orig post:
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So, yes, remove the cost adding and weight adding part on your LOW COST Mustang! IGNORE that the Fox Mustang was made to be LOW COST, with 4-lugs to REDUCE COST and weight, etc.
Yup, the Ford Engineers are clueless idiots.
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Interesting terminology for it.I did try to cut out the paragraph that directly addresses the "mooseballs".
I agree with you.I really don't see the argument here?
That was the common term used for the axle damper back in the 90's.Interesting terminology for it.
Have you any data to disprove my point?
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