Matt_971

auto or manual. This could be my problem. I have a vibration and have had it with 2 different diffs. It goes away for first 10kms when I swapped the diff but was back after giving it some stick. could be gearbox mount for sure. cheers

Well not rotors. After more mucking around found diff is rooted. Just got another this arvo off a forum member so will be dropping that in. I think the pinion on mine is bent causing the vibration. But will know 100% by the weekend. If it still does it I think I will burn the car lmao. Not much else I can think of to do it. Will keep you posted.

Hey guys. Got a diff problem and have had it in and out to many times so have had enough and want another diff. I know of a 3.46 ratio ready to go a guy has. But I have a series 2 BA with 6 speed manual and stock diff they have is 3.73. Would dropping to 3.46 change a huge amount. Will drop revs I tiny amount. From what I calculated its only 4kmh diff at 100kmh. And that will actully make my speedo right. It is 5kms out atm. Any down side to this? Cheers Matt

Hey Mate I got the EXACT same problem with mine. Except my vibration is worst around 80kmh. I have rebuilt diff, had tailshaft balanced, new drivers side driveshaft. Still there. Have been playing around this morning with it and noticed when I take the rotors off the vibration is gone. So just about to go pickup a set of rotors n see how I go. Will let ya know.

Hey guys.. Thought I would just chuck a quick update here. My RHS CV is playing up. Has quite a bit of slop in it so thought mmm time for newie. Rang bursons as I seen in this thread they have them and he told me not available until the 9th of sept 2010. The current batch out are having some issues with vibrating etc and manufacturer has advised and "updated" version will be available in september. Dunno if this helps anyone but I will let you know how they go. Mine is holding up atm just vibrates. Cheers Matt

well I dragged this up from a while ago but thought I should update everyone on what happened. Well I was under car to check it out and oil was all over back of car. Pulled drain plug and was plenty of oil in diff still. Anyways went to turn tail shaft and it moved. The yoke in the diff moved around quite a bit and hence the oil leaking out. After pulling tail shaft out to check I found the pinion nut VERY loose. Almost off. SOOO out come the diff. Was lucky the diff didnt grab and lock itself. After finding pinion that loose thought I better put new bearings throughout. Done that new seals etc and she is back in and running a dream. SOO anyone having this issue with whinning CHECK PINION ASAP. I was lucky I caught it when I did. I think if I drove it anymore at all I would of blown diff. It did actually grab as I was driving the car into shed. Just as I rolled back it jammed. So VERY VERY lucky. Gears didnt sustain ANY damage at all soo was wrapped. Diff is back together and running fine. New diff bush was put in too. So VERY VERY lucky here. Cheers Matt

Hey guys. Been weighing up selling my XR6t and buy a BF with curtain airbags. But after seeing an interior for sale in for sale forum with side airbags I was wondering if it was possible to install side airbags into a car with out them. I would imagine they setoff same as front airbags so sensors wouldnt be a problem?? Or am I totally off? Cheers Matt

ok I might just stick to the transmax then. When I was in the shop I couldnt remember what it was called so had a look in the book n the sin75 was the one listed but I think it might of been series 1 manual which is the t5. Anyways I will stick with the known and grab some of the good stuff. Thanks for speedy relies guys. Cheers Matt

Hey Thinking of changing the oil in me gearbox as it seems a lil clunky and I have just rebuilt the diff so thought I might change the oil. I know everyone uses tranzmax or whatever its called. I was in a shop n checked out the book and found this sin75 fully sythetic oil. Book says it only needs 2ltrs too and I know they hold quite a lot of oil. Is the book totally wrong or??? Has anyone used this oil. I know a few ppl have used it in skylines with good results. Cheers Matt

hey everyone just something a mate and I have been talking about. Since the BA's have some many iissues with tramp, CV's n bushes etc etc. The AU diffs are damn strong still. And dont seem to have half the problems. We have a AU s3 diff layng around and wondered if anyone knew if it would fit and what mods would be needed if any? Cheers Matt

Hey guys, First off I did do a search and found some other diff whine threads but I have some more questions. Second its a 2004 BA2 XR6t 6 speed manual. DEAD Stock. When I bought my T it had about 60,000kms in it. Have now just completed 70,000kms. When I bought it, it had NO diff whine under any situation. Was great thought I got a good one. Now the whine has started. But I am concerned. Drive about 200kms yesterday and it got pretty bad within just those 200kms. Now it u back off in 3rd when in low rpm it REALLY whines. Puts a whole vibration through the car. I just feel it is like the normal diff whine. Any suggestions? Cheers Matt

hey guys sorry for late reply. Have been away with work. Car has 50,000kms on it. Is dead stock no mods what so ever. so isnt a tune or nefin. Is weird I find that if ya pin it at 2k it will cut around 3k. but from idle it will rev right out. no issues whatso ever through all gears (or as many as I could without breaking land speed record lol) Might go get it checked out at ford soon and let yas know whats going on. Cheers Matt

Hey guys Think this has something to do with the weird idle problem I wrote about recently. Was crusing in car other day in 3rd around the 2000rpm mark (6 speed manual). booted it to overtake a car and it got to about 3000rpm n cut out. Started running like it was on 2 cyls. If I clutch it and give it a rev cleans up but does same thing again around 3000rpm. Now the weird part is. If I drop back a gear and revs go over 3k it will rev and pull perfectly all the way through rev range. And tried recently from stand still WOT through as many gears as I could (private road ofcourse) and it went perfect. No splutter no cut out nothing. Any ideas. Cheers Matt

no the icc doesnt auto switch to aux. u gotta push am twice as you said. the phone kit is different coz phone control units (lil box under the dash that has the speaker and power cables etc actually earths a specific wire in that plug for it to take over the sound output. So no easy way to make it talk automatically.

would it be. has only done it once so far. and it wasnt wet or anything that day. and the other ute I remember this happening to was fine. it done it now n then but always ran fine. weird

Hey guys Other day after driving the Xr6t it developed a weird problem. Took off nice n gentle to some traffic lights. Stopped and car was idling BAD. sounded like only running on 4cyls. Give it a rev and revved different too. Took off from lights as cars all around me I couldnt stop and all of a sudden it came good. I remember a while ago a drive a mates Ba series 1 xr6t ute. As we pulling into his garage it done the same thing but I think his done it worse. tunred key off and started it fine. Any ideas what this is. is it a recognised problem from ford? By the way mine is a series 2 xr6t sedan manual. Cheers Matt

ok so I will be paying CGT on it this year JUST for renting it out. I thought it only comes into play IF we sell it. I havent sold it yet. Isnt for sale just got a few ideas in my head.

that's good news for me then first calculation without using interest as deduction was me paying 5k in tax but that helps me sleep better now lol. I will let ya know what accountant says will affect CGT and anything else etc. Cheers for response. Matt

Hey fellas. This is for the tax gurus out there. We are seeing an accountant soon but I got this in me head and need to figure it out to sleep well lol. We have a rental property which earned $5500 ($200 a week) worth for us this few months. Our interest only payment is $220 a week. now I think we call this negative gearing correct? What I want to know is if we claim the interest as a deduction do we then have to pay capitol gains tax if we sell. And what are the conditions. I have read about living in it first and not renting for longer than 6years. Both these are true. It was our house then we moved for work. but kept house. and it has only been rented for 6ish months. If we sell within that 6year gap what do we have to pay Also whatelse can we claim without affecting CGT? Like council rates, water rates, depreciation etc etc. Any info would be good. Not looking for ATO documents just a yes or no answer would be good. As I said accountant will be working the finer points out for me. Cheers Matt

you cant transfer reg between states. yo u will need to go to a vicroads office to be able to cancel and get a refund. vic doesnt have CTP as such. is all included in the price of rego so when ya cancel that it all goes. Best bet is to get owner to refund rego take that off price of car and u get permit to drive it. permit cost about 50 bucks depends how long ya get it. Also permit HAS to come from origin state and will do all other states u need to travel through. so u will only need a vic permit. then once u in nsw get rwc (blue slip I think isnt it) and away ya go. pay 12months reg again. abut only way there was a loop hole for me when I got a car from nsw to vic. but I have lived in NSW and my name was in their system still. hope that helps. cheers

yeah well I heard somewhere only a female occupant in serious but stable condition so good to hear they will be ok. still not a good thing. that particular crossing is on a "to be fixed" list I read so see what happens now. sad it takes something so serious for someone to do something about it huh

Hey everyone. Bring some more sad news. We were driving home from crown tonight and just near calder park where you turn off for the BP servo outbound there is a railway crossing. Coming up to it tonight about 11:15pm there were blue n red lights everywhere. got bit closer and seen a mangled car sitting on rail tracks and train sitting few hundred metres up the track. Makes me feel sick in the guts seeing something like this. REALLY hope no one died. Were flashing lights at this crossing but no boom gates so gotta wonder. Dunno what else to say. Glad I am no the one of the many ppl that attend crashes like this. Dont know how they do it.

ok guys. just talking to adam on the phone and we worked out that picture in the website I posted is actually a mirror sitting in where the tissue box goes. so the connector is up exactly where adam said it is lol. Will start a new thread soon all about how it works etc

ahhhhhhh lol ok so the plug is up underneath is it. I could feel where the aerial plug was. is it near that? can you actually see it or is it up behind the panel

yes lol I'll have a closer look tomorrow from this website it looks like there is a few plugs there but I cant see any. http://www.adam.com.au/rbockman/icc.htm