From: Darrell Ramsell (daram@comcast.net)
Date: Mon Jun 27 2005 - 17:23:06 PDT
Mike
The vibration is not from road segments. The vibration is coming from the
vehicle. It will vibrate for 3 seconds then stop for 3, then vibrate again
and repeat.
Darrell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Davidsen" <mike@aspirationsoftware.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] HMMWV vibration
> Darrell Ramsell wrote:
>
>> Gents
>>
>> I drove my HMMWV from San Francisco to LA and back. I noticed that at
>> higher speed (50 mph +) I get a rythmatic vibration about every 5 seconds
>> the pretty much vibrates the whole vehicle. It's not a strong vibration
>> but noticiable. The faster I go the quicker the plus gets so to speak.
>> The vibration didn't last the whole trip. I kind of comes and goes.
>> Just curious if this is normal or an indication that something should be
>> fixed.
>>
> Yeah, we get that on the East Coast as well, in some spots like driving on
> the Jersey or Pennsylvania Turnpike. Occurs in HMMWVs, or other military
> vehicles, or any other vehicle as well; rynthmic vibration every 3/4 of a
> second or so, sometimes a strong vibration, sometimes not so strong.
> Usually coincides with hitting those stupid concrete section dividers
> every 50 to 75 feet or so. Bud-dump, bud-dump, bud-dump... :)
>
> Mike
>
>
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