genebaby Abuser of Charvels Member 501 Member For: 20y 11m 20d Gender: Male Location: Canberra Posted 30/03/04 12:54 AM Share Posted 30/03/04 12:54 AM When somebody can find out exactly what the problem is we can start hassling Ford to rectify it and live in a world of quiet, clunk free gear changes. Ah, the bliss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genebaby Abuser of Charvels Member 501 Member For: 20y 11m 20d Gender: Male Location: Canberra Posted 30/03/04 01:04 AM Share Posted 30/03/04 01:04 AM Also, changing carefully and slowly doesn't help me none, if the diff wants to clunk, clunk it will. Sometimes it just does it, other times it doesn't in the same type of gear change situation. It's a bugger for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Forum Superhero Donating Members 3,109 Member For: 21y 4d Location: Eastern Suburbs of Mexico Posted 30/03/04 01:05 AM Share Posted 30/03/04 01:05 AM When somebody can find out exactly what the problem is we can start hassling Ford to rectify it and live in a world of quiet, clunk free gear changes. Ah, the bliss. Hmm interesting genebaby, as the dealer and supplier admitted that it was only apparent in T's. You have an 8 don't you?Interesting as I said to the dealer that surely both cars run the same diff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Here since the start... Lifetime Members 10,282 Member For: 21y 7m 5d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 30/03/04 01:10 AM Share Posted 30/03/04 01:10 AM Does anyone know who makes the diffs?I'll fu*cking ring them myself and find out if they've moved, moving or what! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIMBO Member 38 Member For: 21y 9m 26d Location: Sydney Posted 30/03/04 01:20 AM Author Share Posted 30/03/04 01:20 AM I believe the diffs are made by BTR. If my info. is correct BTR has been taken over by an American company which I think is called Spicers, who apparently are quite good in the diff dept., and they are moving premises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAP No boost, no bottle, just my foot on the throttle! Lifetime Members 7,935 Member For: 20y 9m 17d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 30/03/04 01:23 AM Share Posted 30/03/04 01:23 AM I believe the diffs are made by BTR. If my info. is correct BTR has been taken over by an American company which I think is called Spicers, who apparently are quite good in the diff dept., and they are moving premises. yep they are Dana/Spicers : http://www.dana.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genebaby Abuser of Charvels Member 501 Member For: 20y 11m 20d Gender: Male Location: Canberra Posted 30/03/04 01:50 AM Share Posted 30/03/04 01:50 AM When somebody can find out exactly what the problem is we can start hassling Ford to rectify it and live in a world of quiet, clunk free gear changes. Ah, the bliss.Hmm interesting genebaby, as the dealer and supplier admitted that it was only apparent in T's. You have an 8 don't you?Interesting as I said to the dealer that surely both cars run the same diff. The dealer is a liar, but that's nothing new, my mother bought a new corolla which arrived last week and the outright lies they told about the wheels that were on it and the ones she ordered were insulting to my intelligence. But that's another story. Anyway, most of the manual BA's suffer the clunking diff problem. There are non XR models with it too, so being told the clunk is there to protect my drivetrain from 260kws of power is a load of bull too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAP No boost, no bottle, just my foot on the throttle! Lifetime Members 7,935 Member For: 20y 9m 17d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 30/03/04 02:35 AM Share Posted 30/03/04 02:35 AM What we should all do is put up $10 each and send one of the T's with the clunk to a diff place that has a clue and get them to fix it.Once we can prove the problem can be fixed without major hassels we can make Ford pay to get the others fixed. Ford seem to either not care about this problem or are trying to fix the problem by getting the OEM to make new diffs that do not clunk. I bet the problem is just freeplay and this can be fixed by a diff specialist without to much expense.May be if you yell loud enough at your dealers they may even agree to pay for the diff place to fix the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genebaby Abuser of Charvels Member 501 Member For: 20y 11m 20d Gender: Male Location: Canberra Posted 30/03/04 04:15 AM Share Posted 30/03/04 04:15 AM That could work, and a free play problem sounds likely. Ford are lying saying it's a feature, if it was, it would do one or the other ALL the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIMBO Member 38 Member For: 21y 9m 26d Location: Sydney Posted 30/03/04 05:22 AM Author Share Posted 30/03/04 05:22 AM What we should all do is put up $10 each and send one of the T's with the clunk to a diff place that has a clue and get them to fix it.. Where do I send the $10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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