Fg Rear Clunk

[old_mate]

Its a f*cked design that gets highlighted with more ponies and is made worse by particular driving styles.

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[Ralph Wiggum]

DO IT

for the love of GOD

GET THE WHOLE LOT REPLACED IN ONE GO MAN

You'll need to anyway. Trust me.

Refer my sig

[Bellato]

Yea Ralph diff bush was the first thing I thought from what I read but the mechanic at Ford reckons the diff bush is fine. (not that im the biggest fan of the dealership).

Whats the typical sign of the diff bush being buggered?

Im going to take the car in for a $14 pedders check when they're free and see if they can tell me whats actually shagged and whats just in 'okay' condition.

Plus if I do the bushes Im going to upgrade all the suspension while im going so I need to save up a bit

[Bellato]

Just an update on this. Pedders told me all my bushes are fine and theres nothing major wrong but the shocks are pretty sh*t after 80,000kms. I was planning to do springs and shocks in a few weeks anyway. They reckon it could be some loose bolts or something so just went under the car and F*** me half the bolts in the rear end needed about half a turn or more to tighten them up properly. There was a few that need more than a full rotation. This did remove 'most' of the clunk but still a little bit there.

So next step is to springs and shocks (probably won't be for a month till I get a break from uni) then see if things are fixed from there

Definitely recommend getting under the car every now and then and tightening any bolts you can get too (they're pretty much all 18mm), you'd be surprised how loose things get

[Ralph Wiggum]

How HP are you putting through it? My Ba needs the rear end retorque every 3 months or so. Sticky tyres and reasonable HP make light work of the ford rear ends

[musicmick]

I had some clunks in the rear end of my ute only 2 weeks after I bought it new. Turns out the 'U' bolts on the rear springs were a tad loose. All good now.

[EFSIX]

hmm buds im currently driving around in my mates fg xr6t ute and I too hear a clunking noise in the rear end? but only down low (pretty much when u take off) now this is still under warranty but would like to know what the bloody hell it is..ive read what other people have experienced and taking it on board but like another guy said it could be a number of things..hmm got me f@#ed

[Bellato]

Stock standard Ralph. How much torque did you put on the bolts, I just went as tight as I could, given they're steel I didn't think it would matter?

Yea but I have a sedan so different rear end.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Best to torque them to spec mate. They arent grade 11bty billion Nasa spec space shuttle bolts. so toight toight isn't always the best option

[Bellato]

Do you know what torque to do them up too?