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Did you touch the pinion when putting that stuff in? If not it could be the preload, if you did I would have expected it to whine straight away. I never found out what the cause of mine was, the dealer had to send the diff centre back to Ford Australia for investigation. I believe from the...

It had been, it was about midday when I logged on :LOL:

Ranger diffs are pretty good, it's the transfer cases that are harder on their oil (in the 4x4s that is). Changing the transfer case oil at semi regular intervals is a good idea for those not in a 2WD.

I'm on the other side of the planet, but my Raptor had a whining on deceleration. The dealer diagnosed it as the rear differential and replaced it under warranty. This was at around 10,000km on the clock.

Agree with this. Does the US Ranger use the disc brakes at the rear for the park brake? My Raptor which has what I thought were the same callipers uses a separate drum brake.

Most likely. Anecdotally the North American 5G had a lighter frame than the Australian market, due to lower gross vehicle mass requirements. The frame is no wider on the 6G, the front control arms are longer. The front suspension was redesigned to make the engine bay more spacious, but the...

Interesting stuff stufus. When I attended the launch of the 6G Ranger in Australia, I was able to speak the the platform Chief Engineer, and he explained that the north American 5G Ranger was actually on the T6.2 version of the chassis, dimensioned to the same wheelbase as the 5G. Essentially...

FYI team, this is only for the 6G RoW Rangers built with the 2L BiTurbo diesel and the 10 speed auto with the E-shifter. Nothing to do with ours.

OP is long since gone, but in case anyone else was wanting to try this you'd be better off stealing the manual out of an EU spec 6G Ranger, as the North American 5G is essentially on the 6G's frame with in the 5G's length.

It wasn't today, but I recently got home from a 6,500km roadtrip around the eastern states of Australia. The Raptor ran like an absolute dream. Stops included: Broken Hill Bourke Charleville Longreach Gladstone Dalby Tamworth Parkes Temora Wagga Wagga Here's the Raptor at the Blackwater...

I know a few people inside Ford Australia, and it absolutely was a "we installed the wrong head gasket" issue. Ford Australia even publicly commented as such. As unfortunate as it was, the supplier of the head gaskets was sending the Valencia engine plant the wrong head gaskets (not the updated...

That's not correct at all, the Duratec engine which descended from the Sigma is unrelated to the Pinto/Lima and the Mazda L (which was also branded Duratec to make it even more confusing). The Ecoboost 2.3 is the same engine architecture in all vehicles, and both the 2.0 and 2.3 Ecoboost...

I never called it anything else?

Both the 2.0 and 2.3 EcoBoosts are decedents from the Mazda L engine in all applications (not the Pinto/Lima). The differences in the RS engine vs the Mustang engine that caused the head gasket issue was a change in the cooling passage at the top of the block, and bottom of the head. Otherwise...

Thanks for the clarification. In that case ignore what I said about a BOV!

No I don't fully agree there. The RS is AWD, just like my Volvo S60 was, and both do not have a centre differential (the RS doesn't even have a rear diff). Again, having two arbitrary terms to describe at least four different types of drive technology that do a similar thing means that they...

Absolutely, that's the point of it. The Raptor defaults to 4A on startup.

One, but it's irrelevant. Relevant quotes: Both statements are not correct. The ute is not engaging a traditional 4x4 setup when the system is in 4A. Calling something AWD/4WD does not matter. The technology used is what matters, not some arbitrary name that apparently defines what sort of...

4WD vs AWD is really a semantics debate. They all drive the four corners of the car, they all do approximately the same thing. As an engineer, the tag that marketing gives the system is really irrelevant, as the technology varies so wildly between different vehicles anyway. The Ranger V6 diesel...

The vast majority of AWD systems today use clutches not centre differentials in light vehicles, and this is no different. It's semantics anyway, it's not part time 4x4 which was being implied. It's full time four wheel drive when in 4A mode, and torque goes to the front when it matters. For...