I'm waiting for the post where you wrap that car around a pole or tree at 110+mph

 

Thanks I appreciate your good wishes.

 

I noticed the same with mine, but have no clue what it is or does.

 

vibration damper

change to a aluminum driveshaft and you won't have any vibration

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...mages?q=fox+vibration+damper&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&tbs=isch:1

 

change to a aluminum driveshaft and you won't have any vibration

That is what is next on my list. I figured it was a damper of some sort.

 

Whatever you do, don't ever remove that thing. I did on my car and it would not go into reverse gear. I put it back on and the tranny worked perfect again.

 

Yeah not going to remove it, that's for sure.

 

There may be tons of PPL that will post, "I removed it and no problems" or something that effect. However, I suspect that most PPL do not understand the purpose of the dogbone.

The dogbone is there to keep the nose of the pinion down in the correct angle. The weight help offset the weight of the differential "chuck". This helps to reduce the twisting forces of the axle that would tend to raise the pinion up giving a poor U-joint drive shaft to pinion angle.

The gear ratio doesn't matter.

 

The purpose is NVH. It only weighs 10 lbs so it certainly isn't going to have an effect on axle wind up.

 

5th 110mph, 2200 rpm what gears are you running in that thing some 1 series or something. you best have 1500 plus horse power and doing salt flat racing with that gear ratio.

 

2.73s son! Ok maybe 2500 rpm.

Is that your red car always on the lift in whites?

Car looks bad!

 

i alway thought it was to help with vibrations.

 

The car is trying to tell you something.

Maybe what not to do?

 

The "dog bone" is 100% NVH. VIBRATION. Get a balanced drive shaft, adjustable control arms with some decent bushings, tune your pinion angle, and get rid of the freak'n thing.

<<--- 2000 GT, dog bone free and happy since June of 2000.

 

Being that the bushings are obviously shot it isnt doing shit anyways. When doing weight reduction on a Fox body the dog bone is usually one of the first things to go. There are no ill effects from removing that dead weight POS.

 

i believe it's called a mott's bar. if you install an frpp aluminum drive shaft you won't have any vibration issues. i am and running 4.30 gears and no vibration at any rpm's.