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Old Jun 12, 2007 | 09:23 PM
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You also have to take about 5-10mm off the end of the bolt when you refit it or else if you have a gearbox mount go weak or give the car abuse, it CAN cause the end of the bolt to puncture the gearbox casing. This is not covered under ANY warranty either.

When I worked @ Ford, we saw this situation more than once where the bolt was refitted the other way (which I might add the techies did as well as it was easier than dropping the subframe) and the customer came back with the car on a flatbed as they'd given the car some grief and put the bolt through the 'box.

Internal TSB went round soon after stating that if any wishbone bolt on a Mondeo was changed and refitted accordingly, the end of the point was to be ground away before fitting or else the repair bill would be down to the individual techy .
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