Tail Shaft Problems- Fg Xr6 T

[crazyhorse]

Hi guys

I bought my FG XR6 turbo in August, and have had it in for its 15000km service. It began clunking changing up and down gears and during excelleration, a mate got under it and reckons its the coupling that joins the tail shaft onto the diff. So I took it back to Ford, and they are replacing the entire tail shaft.

Ford reckon its from having too heavy a weight in the tray, though I don't think a few bales of hay and some bags of horse feed would equal a heavy weight. The ford service guy reckons he has seen a few of them, (with one car coming in with that coupling totally distroyed) and the heavy weight excuse is coming from the Ford Factory... just thought I would give you a heads up that there seems to be a bit of an issue in this area of the car.

I am also getting my suspension tightened as the car bottoms out on bumps on the highway, a little hard to steer clear of when your doing 100+ kms an hour.

Has anyone else had any issues like this or am I the only lucky one?

[TUFGSR]

It seems to be a common problem now mate, I broke the centre bearing in my tail shaft with a full tub load while giving it a bit of stick.

Some guys are breaking them on stockers, some modified so it definately is a design fault. A sorce tells me the cvs where never designed to handle even the stock power. Wether this is true or not I am not sure.

[RAP1D]

Is this just utes, or sedans too?

My old BA ate 2 front tail shaft couplers, and one centre bearing/bush, so I dont want to go through that again.

[jasol]

my centre bearing was making noise as I stoped, ford replaced the whole tailshaft, they said this was very uncommon mines a bf though

[tinyplums]

mines going in monday for new shaft, stock power just lowered 65mm

[xtremerus]

The Falcon utes have a single tailshaft and no center bearing, I thought. I could be wrong.

[TUFGSR]

The FG utes run a two peice tailshaft with two cvs and there both sh*t.

[Adrian6T]

Best thing for the FG's is to fit a BF tailshaft.

Ford truly stuffed up the FG shaft.

[jasol]

The Falcon utes have a single tailshaft and no center bearing, I thought. I could be wrong.

all xr's have a 2 piece normal falcon utes have a single

[crazyhorse]

bugger sorry to hear about your troubles guys, I wondered if it was me giving it a bit too much gas every now and then, but it sounds like a design fault. Sure hope I don't have to get the tail shaft replaced every 15,000kms or I will be trading it in for a moped.