Hi all hope someone can help,
I recently had my focus st 225 OS drive shaft gator replaced and since then I've noticed a clicking/clonking noise especially when going between 1st and reverse.
I seem to remember some sort of ford recall and remember someone put a ford data sheet on here about this issue, can anyone shed some more light on this please.
Cheers

 

The joint may be worn if the boot was split and crap gets in and the grease gets diluted.

 

Cheers for reply, it was the inner joint that split but I'm convinced it's coming from the outer joint!!! The garage did change this gator too as they managed to split it when putting it back together!!!!!

 

re-pack it with propper CV grease and try it again, although it does sound like an inner joint cup has worn

 

I get the odd noise from the shafts on ours, never bothers me, I think the offside inner boot is a common failure.

 

Studabear this is all the time mate! It clonks when I go from 1st to reverse or visa versa and I get a slite ticking sound (normally two clicks) when I pull away in slow traffic and again I get the same two when i stop!! Never done this before they replaced my cv !!!!!!

 

the splines at the hub end need coating in loctite [cant remember which one though] i did it to mine

 

Cheers replies, but still hoping someone has a copy of the ford data recall data sheet that they can put on here.