Minnesota Focus Owners Club

My zx5 SVTF has a light knock when in neutral with the clutch out... It Shifts fine, and when the clutch is pushed in, the sound goes away.... not sure what this could be... any thoughts????

It's the infamous SVT rattle, It's mainly just annoying.

Does yours do it all the time or only sometimes?

Any clutch slippage?

Yeah, mine does the same thing....You learn to deal with that, as well as the crazy slippage. Unless you're not poor like me, and you can afford a replacement.

yea deal wit it is wat i did, then bam clutch goes out!!!!!

mars wrote:yea deal wit it is wat i did, then bam clutch goes out!!!!!

Yeah but yours rattled for like two years before it went out and it did start slipping before it went BAM

Is the rattle due to the dual mass set up? First thing I thought about would be a throw out bearing rattling away when it had little or not load on it but once you depress the clutch and load it up it will quiet down until of course as you guys have stated BAM.

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If you want to hear rattle listen to my 6-puck. Now that fucker rattles.

P.S. You should just sell me your ZX5 SVT so you don't have to deal with that anymore. Seriously.

yea mines rattled for a long time... LOL!!!!

mars wrote:yea mines rattled for a long time... LOL!!!!

Guess I have a bit of time, then....It only makes noise when I'm at a fast food drivethru, for some reason...

my father works for a ford dealership and we looked it up on their system... it seems to be premature clutch wear caused by bad alightment in the transmission... not sure how that would have happened.... but ford recommends you top off the transmission fluid as step one.... after that the tranny gets taken out... so im gonna live with it for now.

Sounds like gear rollover or whatever. It's normal with just about any performance clutch.

just wiat till you corner hard and it sticks in gear...or wont go in gear till you blip the foot feed. yeah the rattle is the stup--indis dual mass pyle of crap..... i mean christ, shoulda made it outta concrete, it woulda been lighter. the stock svt clutch engages like a bag of warm dog poo..... i love it when it shifts normal then it will engage when the pedal is like nannometers from the floor, or my fave...it grinds and then popps into gear like i didnt push the cluth in. so im thinkin about a mtx5 in the future.

----just wiat till you corner hard and it sticks in gear...or wont go in gear till you blip the foot feed. yeah the rattle is the stup--indis dual mass pyle of crap..... i mean christ, shoulda made it outta concrete, it woulda been lighter. the stock svt clutch engages like a bag of warm dog poo..... i love it when it shifts normal then it will engage when the pedal is like nannometers from the floor, or my fave...it grinds and then popps into gear like i didnt push the cluth in. so im thinkin about a mtx5 in the future.----

sounds like you have some real problems... im gonna have to say that has to be the most hilarious post i have read...

Arsenal741 wrote:----just wiat till you corner hard and it sticks in gear...or wont go in gear till you blip the foot feed. yeah the rattle is the stup--indis dual mass pyle of crap..... i mean christ, shoulda made it outta concrete, it woulda been lighter. the stock svt clutch engages like a bag of warm dog poo..... i love it when it shifts normal then it will engage when the pedal is like nannometers from the floor, or my fave...it grinds and then popps into gear like i didnt push the cluth in. so im thinkin about a mtx5 in the future.----

sounds like you have some real problems... im gonna have to say that has to be the most hilarious post i have read...

no just the ones that come with the ass backwerds clutch on the getreg. they all do it sooner or later, no springs on the friction but springs on the flywheel.....just dont make sense to me.