Zf Flaring When Cold

[Adrian6T]

I can tell you now, I have close to 1000Nm of torque and +370rwkw. A certain person (I dont know if he wishes to be named) and I run Transmax Z in my box and after 20000km the box has not missed a beat. These k's were not light k's either. They consisted of multiple drags nights and track days and fast passed cruises every weekend. Gone through 4 sets of tyres and the box has not missed once and feels the same as the day it was built.

The key to these boxes is fresh oil. My box gets flush every 5000km with the engine oil.

[chippa]

So a regular flushing is what about 5 to 8 litres?? I have yet to swap over to the motospecs ZF pan and filter but feel the need to do this soon as I have just clocked over 40k and will be getting a retune in the near future to low 300's so as you stated it makes good sense to do same time as engine..good insurance

[elfinke]

I am not defending Ford. If you only talk to the people at the front counter you get the answers you are getting. My brother is one of the people that work on the cars. He is only telling me the experiences he has had and what the issues he has seen.

By the way when they say it is sealed for life they mean the life of the transmission which is 150000klm which is expected life before it needs a rebuild. Any life after that is a bonus.

Sorry for the 20-odd day bump, but 150000km before a rebuild? Surely you are missing a 0 or mean only for those cars that are driven above and beyond normal expectations? 150000km is fark all for a car in Australia, and I'm sure not one of the owners of the 2nd hand ZFs on carpoint/carsales have ever contemplated the need to rebuild their ZFs?!

Or am I miles off the mark?

[gassa]

Mate

From what I have heard you never change the oil in a ZF it is there for the life of the Box the only thing that is done by the computer is fine tuning only . If you replace the oil in the box I would check the warranty

Gassa

[wiresquire]

I'm with you, Elfinke - isn't 150K for an expected trans life very low?

Cripes the warranty is 3yrs/100K. I wonder if there are any taxis getting around with a ZF....

qs

[saleen]

I have a brother who is an automatic service specialist at a major Ford dealership. He a completed training ZF training courses. He states that the ZF is a very good gearbox with rarely any problems except when people change the type of oil they use in the gearboxes. They do not require oil change for the life of the gearbox(150000klm).

Like I said if you want a good service life from your gearbox do not use anything other than the recommened oil. If the so called experts say there are other oils that can be used ask them for a written guarantee that the new oil won't do any damage to the gearbox. I bet they wont. Phone ZF and talk to them, they are experts, not independant auto shops , tuning shops etc.

The computer that is built into the valve body has every bit of information stored in it since the car left the dealers showroom. It can tell the ZF tech every gearchange, torque through the gearbox and even your driving style. If you make a warranty claim they can download the info from computer in the gearbox and they can verify it or reject from this information.

These gearboxes are a couple levels above anything else in technology and expensive.

Hey WarrenG,

I'm not sure if you are genuinely trying to help someone here, or you are just being a know-it-all. But the 'I have a brother, who's goats twice removed aunty-in-law, who had a neighbour in Warrialda' line just doesn't cut it. Clearly everything your saying is only of your opinion, which is neither right or right and I think if you don't know FACTS about this tranny(you may know 'stuff' about other trannys......hmmm, yeah??' you shouldn't post in this forum.

Um, shut the door behind you on way out champ. There's a good fella.

[tab]

Subtle.

[jasol]

I am not defending Ford. If you only talk to the people at the front counter you get the answers you are getting. My brother is one of the people that work on the cars. He is only telling me the experiences he has had and what the issues he has seen.

By the way when they say it is sealed for life they mean the life of the transmission which is 150000klm which is expected life before it needs a rebuild. Any life after that is a bonus.

I think your wrong about the zf needing a rebuild after 150000kms if this was the case I dont think many ppl would buy the car, my old ef had over 300000kms on the clock trans was fine

[Ralph Wiggum]

I think you are wrong thinking your EF had a ZF in it..........

[trevs]

im pretty sure his saying the gearbox in his old ef had 300000km on it ........

not that it had a zf in it

cheers trev