Hey everyone!

Just a few quick niggly questions about my xr6t.

I noticed a very slight smell of coolant coming from the car after a drive, both thrashing and not, but there are no leaks and there is no coolant loss, which has got me baffled.

Also, when accelerating and reversing, there is a click coming from what seems to me like the back end of the car, towards the right side. This becomes louder under harder acceleration when the car squats down.

One last quick one- im about to do a service on it and was wondering what viscosity oil i should use and brand!

thanks in advance,

Alex

coolant smell could most likely be the heater box on the way out, the click from the rear will be a cv joint or diff bush and asking about oils will be a mine field but use something synthetic with between 5w-30 and 5w-50, helix ultra is good value. $60 odd at big w or k mart.

dont forget you'll need about 7.5 litres of oil.

6.6L of oil

thanks guys.

The coolant smell is more outside the car, inside cant smell a thing.

Are the bushes/cv's expensive job?

Alex

Check the coolant overflow from the header tank, it might just be dripping from there. could be the water pump?

diff bushes can be dear basicly cause the rear cradle needs to be dropped out to do them, I know ford quotes 8 hrs for the job, but can be done in half of that. cv joints dunno, depends how handy you are. Get a workshop manual and have a look.

well after some digging around on the weekend discovered that it actually wasnt the bushes- its the springs in the handbrake mechanism so thats all good

Serviced her as well and discovered there was a small split in the hose coming out of the overflow tank so all fixed