There is an odd vibration happening when the car shifts from first to second – at the bottom of second there is some pretty intense vibration that goes away as the RPM increases. The guy who sold me the car said it has a bad u-joint. So I jacked up the rear of the car and took some videos of the front and rear of the driveshaft while loading the motor against the brakes – to see if I can catch what is going on.

It didn’t really show anything except some odd front to back movement at the transmission. So next I popped open the hood and checked the motor loaded against the brake in forward and in reverse to see if a motor mount is broken.

Motor mounts seem ok, although a bit soft.