MustangCollector
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Mods please make this a STICKY thread as this will help owners correct this annoying issue:
As most of us have been noticing the buzzing rattling is simply annoying all day long. I posted about this and from the photos posted of the shifter assembly off the car and responses I took the time to really figure this out. As you may know once I focus on something I do whatever it takes to solve it and have a good result, hence my crazy suspension testing and everything else I do with all of my cars.
So the noise is coming specifically from the pull up mechanism and the components in the system. The OEM foam wedge in the spring to me is kinda useless and doesn’t make sense why FORD didn’t just do what I figured out and sleeve the shaft to dampen the metal spring to shaft contact.
See photos in order. First remove the shift knob, mine did not come off at all, I used my soft jaw vise grips but it still ruined the leather which forced me to repair it and wrap in Alcantara to match the steering wheel, I am glad this happened because I then did the console and a few other pieces while I was at it. I have just been so busy past few months to focus on getting this done and I was in my zone yesterday.
1: Remove Knob carefully
2: Pull up to remove the shifter bezel, it’s a bitch and you can cut yourself so be careful, my trick is to use a heat gun to warm up the area where the clips are nice and warm and lift up in the front and rear and it pops up with no effort
3. Remove the shaft O ring up top
4. Remove the rubber isolator on the top of the spring carefully, place this aside.
5. Use a needle nose vise-grip to push the spring down so you can get the drift pin out. Use a small punch and hammer and carefully get the pin out to reuse.
6. Discard the stupid foam and clean the shaft of all grease with solvent.
7. Since the noise comes from the spring and plastic collar my goal was to isolate the spring against the shaft better. You can not use foam, rubber tubing etc. but you can use what I did, double wall heat shrink. It took me 4 tries before I found the shrink in my bin that was the right thickness that would allow the spring to install over it.The shrink i used also has special adhesive inside for better adhesion.
8. After the heat shrink cools you can quench it with a wet rag apply some grease over it to slip the spring over it, use the vise-grip to hold spring down and reinstall the pin. Use a good poly grease that is safe for rubber bushings etc.
9. Reinstall the rubber isolator on top of spring and drift pin.
10. I discarded the white plastic collar and I then took a rubber bushing, sliced it in half to also isolate and dampen the knob install against the plastic retainer.
11. The plastic retainer locks into the shifter lever housing, it doesn’t lock in tight if you wiggle it you can hear the plastic make noise. I placed a very thin O Ring i had in my O ring bin inside the shifter stalk mount then I applied 3M Window-weld strip caulk all around the inside cavity where the pull up piece drops into.
12. Warm up the strip calk so it becomes pliable.
13. Push the collar and boot on and twist left to right so the 3M caulk settles.
14, Grab a 22MM socket and soft hammer and tap the collar on, with the O Ring in the base and 3M caulk you need to do this otherwise it wont lock in.
Results, no more noise, shifter pull up is smoother and does not slide up as much which does not affect Reverse Engagement one bit and this just works. Now I welcome you guys to take the time and do your cars, hope you can find the right materials but you should be able to figure it out, the trickiest part is finding the right heat-shrink for the shaft because you want the tolerance to be tight but just enough to slide up and down. The knob and console covering was a bitch to do and its not for any DIY unless you have extensive upholstery experience and lots of patience and the right tools and prep. I also dampened the entire center console and cupholder assembly from below the surface with dynamat extreme and dynapad and jute. now if you knock on my console it feels like a piece of solid wood, not cheap anymore.
Hope this helps you guys out
Enjoy!!!
As most of us have been noticing the buzzing rattling is simply annoying all day long. I posted about this and from the photos posted of the shifter assembly off the car and responses I took the time to really figure this out. As you may know once I focus on something I do whatever it takes to solve it and have a good result, hence my crazy suspension testing and everything else I do with all of my cars.
So the noise is coming specifically from the pull up mechanism and the components in the system. The OEM foam wedge in the spring to me is kinda useless and doesn’t make sense why FORD didn’t just do what I figured out and sleeve the shaft to dampen the metal spring to shaft contact.
See photos in order. First remove the shift knob, mine did not come off at all, I used my soft jaw vise grips but it still ruined the leather which forced me to repair it and wrap in Alcantara to match the steering wheel, I am glad this happened because I then did the console and a few other pieces while I was at it. I have just been so busy past few months to focus on getting this done and I was in my zone yesterday.
1: Remove Knob carefully
2: Pull up to remove the shifter bezel, it’s a bitch and you can cut yourself so be careful, my trick is to use a heat gun to warm up the area where the clips are nice and warm and lift up in the front and rear and it pops up with no effort
3. Remove the shaft O ring up top
4. Remove the rubber isolator on the top of the spring carefully, place this aside.
5. Use a needle nose vise-grip to push the spring down so you can get the drift pin out. Use a small punch and hammer and carefully get the pin out to reuse.
6. Discard the stupid foam and clean the shaft of all grease with solvent.
7. Since the noise comes from the spring and plastic collar my goal was to isolate the spring against the shaft better. You can not use foam, rubber tubing etc. but you can use what I did, double wall heat shrink. It took me 4 tries before I found the shrink in my bin that was the right thickness that would allow the spring to install over it.The shrink i used also has special adhesive inside for better adhesion.
8. After the heat shrink cools you can quench it with a wet rag apply some grease over it to slip the spring over it, use the vise-grip to hold spring down and reinstall the pin. Use a good poly grease that is safe for rubber bushings etc.
9. Reinstall the rubber isolator on top of spring and drift pin.
10. I discarded the white plastic collar and I then took a rubber bushing, sliced it in half to also isolate and dampen the knob install against the plastic retainer.
11. The plastic retainer locks into the shifter lever housing, it doesn’t lock in tight if you wiggle it you can hear the plastic make noise. I placed a very thin O Ring i had in my O ring bin inside the shifter stalk mount then I applied 3M Window-weld strip caulk all around the inside cavity where the pull up piece drops into.
12. Warm up the strip calk so it becomes pliable.
13. Push the collar and boot on and twist left to right so the 3M caulk settles.
14, Grab a 22MM socket and soft hammer and tap the collar on, with the O Ring in the base and 3M caulk you need to do this otherwise it wont lock in.
Results, no more noise, shifter pull up is smoother and does not slide up as much which does not affect Reverse Engagement one bit and this just works. Now I welcome you guys to take the time and do your cars, hope you can find the right materials but you should be able to figure it out, the trickiest part is finding the right heat-shrink for the shaft because you want the tolerance to be tight but just enough to slide up and down. The knob and console covering was a bitch to do and its not for any DIY unless you have extensive upholstery experience and lots of patience and the right tools and prep. I also dampened the entire center console and cupholder assembly from below the surface with dynamat extreme and dynapad and jute. now if you knock on my console it feels like a piece of solid wood, not cheap anymore.
Hope this helps you guys out
Enjoy!!!
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