Re: What purpose is Big Heavy weight on tailhousin
[Re: MPerry]
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01/02/05 02:30 PM
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Just dampens vibration. I've only left it on one car I had and, while it did make a difference, it wasn't that noticeable.
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Re: What purpose is Big Heavy weight on tailhousin
[Re: VT_Dart]
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01/02/05 02:51 PM
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On my '73's, there's also one bolted to the floorpan back by where the pinion snubber would hit.
I did an A- B comparison (with, without) on one of my cars with the weight on the trans, didn't notice any significant difference.
John
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Re: What purpose is Big Heavy weight on tailhousin
[Re: SattyNoCar]
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01/02/05 02:56 PM
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Darn.. and here I thought it was to reduce wheel stands
Seriously, as mentioned above... its to dampen harmonic vibrations in the drive train and reduce driver discomfort.
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Re: What purpose is Big Heavy weight on tailhousin
[Re: 440Jim]
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01/02/05 06:22 PM
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Quote:
If your building a car to cruise on the highway, leave it on. If not, put it on ebay!
Well its a street/strip car and I have to drive on the highway to get to NewEngland Dragway,E-Town,or where ever else the car takes me. I have no problem removing it if all it will do is decrease smoothness/quietness. I don't want to remove it if it will cause broken tailhousings or other bad things. ~Mike~
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Re: What purpose is Big Heavy weight on tailhousin
[Re: MPerry]
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01/02/05 06:30 PM
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I SERIOUSLY doubt simply removing that weight will cause things to break. My engine shakes worse than a dog in heat at certain RPM's (engine issues) and nothing has spit out in over 7 yrs of driving it this way. (engine otherwise runs fine, just don't have the $$$ to rebuild it and get it properly balanced ).
John
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Re: What purpose is Big Heavy weight on tailhousin
[Re: MPerry]
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01/02/05 07:24 PM
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i got tired of taking those things off of trans tailshafts... so if there is one there, it stays. if not, it stays. i bet i have hauled 100 of them to the scrap yard...
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Re: What purpose is Big Heavy weight on tailhousing?
[Re: Cuda67]
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01/02/05 08:31 PM
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I've notice about this same time (mid 70's) that the Dart SE and Valiant Broughms got a lot of noise reduction stuff. From your factory experiences what areas needed the most attention for noise reduction ??? I like to make my mopars handle well at the usually adds to ride stiffness and adds to noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH). There are a lot of threads here about adding sound deadner and even frame connectors to reduce NVH I knew a guy who lived in central Iowa that work for Chrysler in the NVH department. Quote:
I worked at Chrysler Engineering at the time these dampers were added to the cars. There was even dampers inside the steering wheel on some cars, as well as under the dash. The damper on the trans is a Power plant bending damper (PPD). The car will as a rule get a little noiser as not all cars needed them. Some cars just didn't have the problem, but most did. The heavy damper on the floor pan is called a Boom Damper. Of course it stops the floor pan from booming. Take them off if the noise doesn't bother you.
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