My moms tigershark driveshaft has a huge vibration. Help!!

Status
Not open for further replies.
jeremy chambon

jeremy chambon

Need more power
Location
rockford MI
Motor good and shimmed properly all the pump bearings are good. You said the shaft is running true and the splines are good. Motor mounts are good. Every pointer that has been given to you has check out good. Does the impler have any damage? Bent blade missing edge? If everything is checking out good your not checking it right since every base has been covered. From my experience shafts just don't wear out 99% of the time there is typicly something causing them to prematurely fail.
 
kwakhead

kwakhead

Location
macomb
Yes yes. I've checked it all. It baffles me. Every bit of the ski is in mint condition even the pump, there are no chips or anything. Maybe it came from the factory all messed up and nobody rode it because of that and that's why its in such beautiful condition?? I mean seriously it like what your average sit down looks like after just one year of use... If u didn't f it up lol
 
amitchell

amitchell

Location
Victoria BC
Sometimes you have to use your head and figure poop out yourself. If you cant do that, then you are better off hiring someone to do it for you.

You received a lot of good advice on a forum that is not for Tigersharks.
 
kwakhead

kwakhead

Location
macomb
But I'm telling all of you I've had at least 20 standup through my garage over the winter and I work on them everyday. Doubt me all u want. It doesn't matter
 
kwakhead

kwakhead

Location
macomb
I always feel like I have to prove something around here. Wtf do I have to prove myself for?? Almost every thread I post somebody has to be a know it all dick and piss me off. Seriously this is supposed to be a "friendly forum" none of u know me in person at all
 
OCD Solutions

OCD Solutions

Original, Clean and Dependable Solutions
Location
Rentz, GA
That's all you bud. The advice you get is the same that everybody gets. What you do with it and how you react to it is all on you. You don't have to prove anything to anybody but yourself. You seem to have excellent instincts and are well on your way to being a decent mechanic but you handle yourself very poorly when challenged by others.

Personally I regret every time I post advice in your threads. Helping you is kinda like helping out a porcupine. You come across like a little know it all prick who clearly believes he is smarter than everyone else here.You ask for help but then spew poop back on why our advise sucks and how you already tried everything already. Would you continue to give advise to someone who acted this way? If you read back, all the advise was civil and on point until you started getting snippy with people.

I posted in this thread after much hesitation and against my better judgement. I won't do it again. This is the third time I have tried to work with you and get past your ignorant attitude and the third time I feel burned. I won't make the mistake again.

Good luck with the ski.
 
Last edited:
kwakhead

kwakhead

Location
macomb
OCD Solutions said:
That's all you bud. The advice you get is the same that everybody gets. What you do with it and how you react to it is all on you. You don't have to prove anything to anybody but yourself. You seem to have excellent instincts and are well on your way to being a decent mechanic but you handle yourself very poorly when challenged by others.

Personally I regret every time I post advice in your threads. Helping you is kinda like helping out a porcupine. You come across like a little know it all prick who clearly believes he is smarter than everyone else here.You ask for help but then spew poop back on why our advise sucks and how you already tried everything already. Would you continue to give advise to someone who acted this way? If you read back, all the advise was civil and on point until you started getting snippy with people.

I posted in this thread after much hesitation and against my better judgement. I won't do it again. This is the third time I have tried to work with you and get past your ignorant attitude and the third time I feel burned. I won't make the mistake again.

Good luck with the ski.
Click to expand...
:)
 
Big Kahuna

Big Kahuna

Administrator
Location
Tuscaloosa, AL
It is really simple. If you have a vibration, it is caused by only a few things.
1. motor is out of alignment.
2. pump is out of alignment.
3 pump bearings are bad
4. Intermediate shaft housing bearings are bad.
5. Crank bearings are bad.
6. You have a bent blade on your prop.
7. Your drive shaft is bent.
8. your rubber dampner is bad.
 
jeremy chambon

jeremy chambon

Need more power
Location
rockford MI
Once again you have stated you check it all. All checks out good. But you say there is a vibration. So there is three things that can be the problem.
1. You haven't checked it all like stated.
2. You arn't checking something right (check ability needs work)
3. Ski runs fine just like the 20 billion hundred million ski that you have fixed and your mom is making stuff up because she want you too mess it up to make a bigger vibration for her too sit on.
That's the only three logical things that it can be.
 
jeremy chambon

jeremy chambon

Need more power
Location
rockford MI
@Big Kahuna those are all good. Remember he said the manufacture messed it all up and they just parked it.it Would not have any thing to do with the rubber components you may have mentioned drying up from little use over the years and stuff.
 
kwakhead

kwakhead

Location
macomb
jeremy chambon said:
Once again you have stated you check it all. All checks out good. But you say there is a vibration. So there is three things that can be the problem.
1. You haven't checked it all like stated.
2. You arn't checking something right (check ability needs work)
3. Ski runs fine just like the 20 billion hundred million ski that you have fixed and your mom is making stuff up because she want you too mess it up to make a bigger vibration for her too sit on.
That's the only three logical things that it can be.
Click to expand...
ur a dumbass.
 
kwakhead

kwakhead

Location
macomb
Big Kahuna said:
It is really simple. If you have a vibration, it is caused by only a few things.
1. motor is out of alignment.
2. pump is out of alignment.
3 pump bearings are bad
4. Intermediate shaft housing bearings are bad.
5. Crank bearings are bad.
6. You have a bent blade on your prop.
7. Your drive shaft is bent.
8. your rubber dampner is bad.
Click to expand...
I should try alighning it once again. The crank bearings are good, yes I can tell if bearings are good no need to school me over the forum Jeremy chambon, motor mounts are not ripped nor rotted, impeller is like new, pump bearing are good and are not damaged at all. If the shaft is bent, I can't see it. I put the shaft on a stone table used for machining to check if it was flat and I could not see a bend anywhere. I trued a brand new coupling damper, examined my couplings, examined my crankshaft, in fact I mounted an indicated to it to look for any play in thousandths of an inch and I couldn't find anything. Maybe the floating housing is pushing the shaft a way it doesn't want to go causing the vibration??
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom