Not Sure what the deal is.

[AirborneNurse]

Ok so I went wheeling this weekend light stuff compared to guys. I got high centered ond a buddy hooked up to my(passanger side) shakle eyelet from the driver side with his winch. He did a real easy/gentle pull, nothing harsh. On the drive home Im hearing intermintent humming/vibration noises. Today Im trying to track down the sounds maybe a loose heat shield dirt somewhere. So Im looking at the front of my vehicle and my ARB is shifted to the driver side, I look at the front top bump stops and the passanger side is further from the frame than the driver side. Im npt sure they were ever symetrical, but their not.

I guess what I am asking is it at all possible that I tweaked/bent the frame on the recovery mentioned earlier. I serious whhen I say it was a very slow graduale pull and the wheeling was lite.

[pathmaker1]

were you highcentered on a torsion bar? it may be possible you bend the tbar which would change the stance of your truck but i dont think it would affect the ARB. with the bump stops being different gaps between them sounds like a tbar issue and the vibration/humming could be from being out of alignment. if you bent your tbar it will mess up your alignment a bit.

i have slammed the side of my old pathy into trees and beat the crap out of it on rocks and my frame is still straight. i dont think simple, easy winching could bend your frame. nissan frames are pretty stout from what i have heard and seen as long as they dont rust out.

[AirborneNurse]

I got SHROCK skids front to back which protect the T-Bars. As you said about the frame I thought it was silly to even think that it would bend, hell if that the X would have shatterd by now with what I have put it through. Im not sure if I mentioned this already but the ARB wings are not the sams as before, they were (for the most part).

[DamnHippie]

Sounds to me like you've got two separate problems: you bent the bumper mounts with the winching, and your torsion bars need adjusting because they just tend to sag at different rates over time (especially when they're new).

I've never paid close attention to how an ARB bumper mounts but generally it's easy to tweak bumper mounts with any kind of force that isn't parallel to the frame rails, a winch pull at an angle could definitely do it. It's easy enough to fix, just use the winch to pull it back into place. (I often use a come-along anchored to a big tree next to my driveway for this kind of thing.)

[AirborneNurse]

I dont think the T-bars are off I just adjusted them prior to this run, my distance on the upper bumpstops to the UCA are about the same on both sides. Im going to pull the skids off this weekend and see what I can see.

[DamnHippie]

I'm confused... you said the difference between the bumpstops was different left to right, but now you say they're the same?

[AirborneNurse]

Yea, after reading my post I would be also. The part of the bump stop that is not the same is where it is mounted/welded to the frame. The distance from the rubber part to the bottom of the SLR UCA is about the same.

Does that make since or did I confuse further. sorry.

[AirborneNurse]

Well found the culprit, I think. I removed all my skids and one/some must of shifted when I hammered the bottom side a couple of times. Since the removal I have not been able to reproduce the sound. Still too early to be absolutly sure but we'll see.

Thanks for the input.

[DamnHippie]

Oh, rattling skid plates, that's a common problem. The two big areas of noise there are the front diff (hits in two places, near the drain hole, and the back support crossmember), and the crossover pipe on the exhaust -- the part with the flexy woven-steel sheath in the middle tends to vibrate against the skid. I ended up welding some reinforcing ribs across the skids at various angles to keep it from happening.

To straighten a bent skid plate, lay a piece of heavy chain on the floor and set the skid plate on it so that the chain is under the bent spot. Put a floor jack on top of the skid with the saddle centered over the bent spot. Loop the chain up over the saddle and fasten it. (You want to be using really strong chain for this, like 5/16 or 3/8 grade 73.) Pump up the jack until the sides of the skid plate are flexing upwards; you usually have to bend it more in the opposite direction than you think because when you lower the jack it'll flex back a bunch. Sometimes you have to give it a few whacks with a small sledge hammer to "set" the bend the jack is putting on it.

[Ryan Gee]

I happen to know where a frame is...... :roflmao:

[AirborneNurse]

UOTE=Ryan Gee;35183]I happen to know where a frame is...... :roflmao:[/QUOTE]


:confused:

DId I say somthing stupid again?

[nissandoms47]

no lol. He literally has a spare xterra frame.

[AirborneNurse]

Ahh, yes I did see the pic. of it in the side of his house/shed.

[DamnHippie]

I knew he had a spare frame, I'm still not sure how that fact relates to this thread. (But since I specialize in saying off the wall things that confuse other people, I tend to not get too excited when something off the wall confuses me.)