JXB Driveshaft Center Support

[Stevedbvik1]

Installed the support, no new bearing. I made some adjustments and the vibration is from 45-55 or so now.

I’m assuming you have the street bushings. You can have them send the comfort bushings. They don’t have a comfort bushing that fits the Ranger bracket and gives 360 degrees of contact but they can send you three of them and you can cut them to give full contact. They’ll also send you a spacer kit if you need to shim it more. I have the 360 degrees of comfort bushing and about 3.7 mm of spacing on my Tremor. Only have a very subtle vibration at around 15mph. Otherwise it’s pretty good.

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[Ed Kennedy]

Yes, it's the street version. I'll talk to them. Thought about the spacers already. With the "comfort" does it still eliminate all the slop at start/stop and maintain the better exceleration? Mine sounds like a helicopter the vibration is so bad at 45mph.

 

[Stevedbvik1]

Yes, it's the street version. I'll talk to them. Thought about the spacers already. With the "comfort" does it still eliminate all the slop at start/stop and maintain the better exceleration? Mine sounds like a helicopter the vibration is so bad at 45mph.

Yes, the firmness stays. Not as tight as the street bushing felt but way better than the oem. I used a combination of their spacers and a some different thickness fender washers to get where I’m at.

 

[JoeDirt03]

You still using the support or you do something else? I may scrap it, I may see if it softens up. It has cleaned up a lot though. It's just too much vibration. I'll wait and talk to them first but it's bad from 40-57 then get some above 70 but not terrible, about like the norm.
The life of a Ranger owner....

I told myself the same thing for about 3 months until the vibration drove me mad. Went to a local driveshaft shop and had the driveshaft rebuilt for 500 bucks. New u joints, carrier bearing(which is way over built compared to stock or JXB) and balanced. Drives like butter.

 

[Dereku]

I mixed a street bushing on bottom and comfort on top last month. Mild vibration around 40 but much firmer than all comfort. I like it. Most of my time is spent at highway speeds either way.

 

[Ed Kennedy]

Mine is undrivable. It's awful and I pretty much know I wasted money on this crap but I'll see what they say before I go blow more money on OEM. Still considering just setting the truck on fire. This truck is the second biggest mistake of my life right behind my 1st wife.

 

[Ed Kennedy]

Might sound like a strange question but what color is your street support rubber bushing?

 

[Stevedbvik1]

Might sound like a strange question but what color is your street support rubber bushing?

The one that came with the kit is black

 

[Dereku]

Might sound like a strange question but what color is your street support rubber bushing?

What color is yours?

 

[Ed Kennedy]

What color is yours?

Black
I'm just looking through some other conversations about it and have seen Orange mentioned. I'm just stressing because i can't drive it like it is and trying to solve the problem. Sometimes you kick yourself for stupid decisions and this is one of those times.

 

[Dereku]

Black
I'm just looking through some other conversations about it and have seen Orange mentioned. I'm just stressing because i can't drive it like it is and trying to solve the problem. Sometimes you kick yourself for stupid decisions and this is one of those times.

Dumb questions but at this point you probably will try anything.

do you have rubber isolators on both side of the mount to the cross member? They are very soft and control a lot of the vibration.

did you get the comfort bushing from them as well? They are super responsive and will help you fix it.

 

[Ed Kennedy]

Dumb questions but at this point you probably will try anything.

do you have rubber isolators on both side of the mount to the cross member? They are very soft and control a lot of the vibration.

did you get the comfort bushing from them as well? They are super responsive and will help you fix it.

Isolators yes, comfort no. I'm going to talk to them today about that and maybe spacers but I've got to get under there today and look at the centering, angles, be sure I've got the bearing housing smooth, etc. just going back through it all to see if I can get to where I can at least drive it and not screw up everything else.

 

[Dereku]

Post up a picture of your install. Lets see if anyone on here has ideas. Also do you have a lift kit at all?

 

[Ed Kennedy]

front view and back view

 

[Stevedbvik1]

front view and back view

You didn’t have the yoke or ujoint off did you? Just asking because of the white paint marks.

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