Vibrations when the car is in motion after gear change

2003 NISSAN X-TRAIL
296,453 MILES • 2.2L • 4WD • MANUAL
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PAT21
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My car has these vibrations while the car is in motion, immediately i change gears from two to three it vibrates. the other vibration is is when i am on sixth gear/rev count 2 there will be this vibrations and a funny noise as if something is loose inside. when i go pass rev count 2 then the vibrations stops. a month ago i replaced my clutch. what could be the problem?
Dec 26, 2017 at 11:26 PM
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CJ MEDEVAC
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Have you physically checked your universal joints?

Here is a link from our "repair guides":

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-u-joints-work

Here are couple of pictures I made of my Willy's Jeep's U-Joints, yours should sort of be similar.

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Dec 27, 2017 at 6:42 PM
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