I'd check your tranmission mounting brackets. They're hard to come by because of a fairly high failure rate but I know Toby has some secondhand ones. When one side breaks, the whole engine and tranny wobble on their mounts and if you pull off hard, you may well hear a big thump as the transmission starts hitting things. Watch your gearstick too, it'll probably move with the wobble Martin stainlessilusion wrote: >Hey guys, it's been a long time since I've posted here. I haven't >really had the time (5 years to go in the Army). Anyway, my car shakes >violently when starting from a dead stop in first gear until about 5- >10 mph. This doesn't happen in any other gear including reverse and >the clutch was replaced recently. So, it's obviously internal-anyone >know which part it could be that's causing this? For now I'll just >have to deal with burning the clutch a little starting out in second. >Thanks all, and happy holidays! -----Dani B. #5003 > > > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/