Idle Vibration

[tommyboy84]

Hello all,

I have recently bought a maron VL commodore series 2, it has done 214,000k's when i sit at idle...it has vibration it doenst have the ultra smooth idle that you get with other VL's - you can barely tell that they are on. So would anyone know why its vibrating? could it just need a service? i had a VL commodore before this one with 177,000 k's and i couldnt feel that idle at all. I have also bought another VL a red one with 172,000k's on it and i cant feel that one idle either. So what would be causing my other vl to be running with a bit of vibration? could it need a service and tune up? could it be the km's that its done but that cant be it because i have been in other VL commodores that have done more than 214,000k's and you cant feel the engine vibrating...it does have extractors on there..could that be a reason?

[bangers]

it won't be the extractors. have you checked you engine and transmission mounts?

[tommyboy84]

hey, another friend told me to check the engine mounts, where are they located?

[rattattack1313]

There is one on either side of the motor, underneath....check the tranny/ gearbox mount too.....

[tommyboy84]

cheers, thanks for that ill have a look.

[dan_man31]

this is gonna sound so stupid and ur all gonna laugh and yeah but have u checked the sparkplugs i found my motor really vibrated every time a plug went out so i threw another one in and boom quite ...till another plug went although u generally notice that is happening when u rev it cause it sounds like shit but yeah

just check all ur wires and that to the dizzy are connected with new plugs and all that cause u could be running on 5 cylinders and that would be makin it vibrate