Chris (PCP Parts) brought over my new rotors and pads this morning (can't ask for better service than that), nothing special but my old stuff was worn and rusted pretty good, these are stop tech rotors and pads, they look great! Touched up the calipers, cleaned the wheel wells.
Bled the brakes, no leakes which is a real good thing after all the line bending and relocating the ABS unit! Speed bleeders make bleeding brakes so easy!
For a long time, I've had a clunking noise on low RPM shifts, I think I probably even have a thread on it. I replaced all kinds of stuff, rebuilt the rear end, rebuilt the tr6060, installed a BMR UCA (they were out of stock on the diff bushing at the time). I tightened every bolt under the car to ford spec.....nothing helped, I always suspected the dish bushing but never wanted to crawl under there to inspect it.
Since the exhaust and driveshaft are all off the car, and BMR got them in stock, I decided today was the day, I've heard horror stories of replacing this thing!
First inspection....
As you can see my , my suspicions were correct, this thing was tore up pretty bad!
So to remove the old one I started with a drill bit, worked around the entire thing back and forth until the bushing pretty fell out on its own, then I switched to a hole saw that fit the metal housing pretty good and ran that thru a few times. Then wrapped the hole saw with 80 grit sandpaper and spend probably an hour cleaning out the housing and getting rid of the old rubber. Greased up the new bushing and got it installed, it wasn't the nightmare I've heard about but it wasn't fun either.
Tomorrow the last of the turbo piping will show up, got a few clamps I need to order and then the motor is going back in followed with the trans and driveshaft.
