lol.....

Been meaning to do these two for a while now, but have been putting it off cos I knew what a pain in the asre it would be...

Matrix didnt appear to be leaking, but sometimes smelt a little of antifreeze when I put the blowers on, so was probably only a matter of time, Clutch rachet occasionally "clicked" too, so thought better to replace as a matter of course too...

Ford list two rachets for the ECos, picked em both up, spent a couple of hours stripping it all out, only to find the rachets werent the same as the one in there .... both new ones were longer, so I just put in the shorter one and kept my fingers crossed...

BOY was the a pain in the arse to do, as far as I could see the heater box had to come down anyway to change the rachet couldnt slide the bar out far enough with it in place..

Shouldve asked beforehand, but any tips on this job, whats the labour time for these two then... took me about 6 £cukin hours, including some alarm loom tidying behind the dash and drinking 2 cups of coffe and swearing alot and sweating my arse off pmsl

Still its all done now

 

pmsl...at least tt's has the dash out

 

LOL yeah, I changed his heater matrix for free ... I would've done the clutch pedal too, while the pedal assembly was out, if Tony had told me it was being changed

 

you reckon thats hard!


try swapping sunroof's!

 

They're a cnut of a job to do on any Ford....apart from a Transit clutch ratchet. You can do them in 10 minutes....

 

sunroofs are always a nightmare

 

After ratchet failure on SS my mechanic now does it in my Escos in like 3 minutes He was so angry then when we lost lots of time searching for some gear ...

 

yeah all stripped out .... try it on a fully loomed fully trimmed road car

Hopefully I'll never have to remove my sunfroof Dave

 

It ain't stripped out at all. This is my everyday car, fully trimmed with air-con and everything. We just happened to take part in a Subaru rally as guests (and gave them beating )

 

AH hang on LHD... , try it with the steering wheel on the right side

 

Always thought RHD is really silly idea Only advantage of RHD is that you can import JDM cars.


Is really difference in terms of clutch ratchet change so big?

 

Yeah I reckon so, as when you slide your bar out, it wont hit the heater box, mine slides towards the heater box, yours slides awayfrom it...

 

As far as I remeber you don't have to remove clutch pedal to do it. At least once we did it without removing anything apart from ratchet itself...

 

? dunno how mate???

 

Me too, would have to dissasemble my car to look at it, I can't tell you now. But it is possible for sure.