Two Part Tailshaft

[xaray]

hi whats the story with the fg ute 2 part tailshaft? how dose it fail? do the 09 models have one piece shafts? I lowered my rear 35mm and haven't had a problem!

[BarKer]

Hiya, I have got an Apr 09 build and it has got a 2 piece..

Cheers,

[rockafellqeinstien]

I think it only effects auto's. And I "think" the reason is that the ute has a live axle where the diff moves up and down (sedan diff is stationary) and the axel needs a way to accomodate this. I dont think the standard axles have enough of this "play". Load it to much or lower it to much and it will place to much stress and "Bang"

[Rancidpunx]

Pics of both please?

[toxicturboute]

Well my tail shaft has 'too much play' in it and a new one is on order..under warranty. My ute is a FG Turbo 6 sp manual and is stock as a rock..it had 5000km (dealer demo) and the morning I picked it up I noticed the knocking..already Sh*t itself..

Im curious too find out what they're replacing it with because if this happens again ill be very dark on ford!!

[schmick325]

Well my tail shaft has 'too much play' in it and a new one is on order..under warranty. My ute is a FG Turbo 6 sp manual and is stock as a rock..it had 5000km (dealer demo) and the morning I picked it up I noticed the knocking..already Sh*t itself..

Im curious too find out what they're replacing it with because if this happens again ill be very dark on ford!!

The FG shafts have 2 cv's in them are they are cheap S#it.

The rear one, just before the diff is the one that is commonly failing and also failed on my car.

Ford are well aware of the problem and have a list of updated parts that are fitted to any cars with these problems.

Too bad there is a backorder on them and I was told to wait 5 weeks for parts.

Instead I now have a custom built shaft from gearbox to diff

[HIRO F6]

Instead I now have a custom built shaft from gearbox to diff

Must be time to throw some more power at it now then schmick??????

[corkey]

Well my tail shaft has 'too much play' in it and a new one is on order..under warranty. My ute is a FG Turbo 6 sp manual and is stock as a rock..it had 5000km (dealer demo) and the morning I picked it up I noticed the knocking..already Sh*t itself..

Im curious too find out what they're replacing it with because if this happens again ill be very dark on ford!!

what dealer are you going to?? my manual has a driveline knock and metro ford what do anything about it.