Ford Focus reborn!
It was time to decide: should Ford be demolished and taken to the scrapyard or should it be repaired for one more round at a F-Race? Leading with a nostalgy to old good times spent with this car, and a passion to clarify why Ford transmission broke, a happy 3 friends decided to investigate, repair and give that car another try to reach the race track.
All started on late, raining Wednesday, the 16th of September, 2021. We all gathered at a garage where Ford had a great sleep for about a year or so. We had some 'fun' taking Ford's gearbox out but eventually all nuts came loose and gearbox fell out of the engine bay quite easily. Few precious moments:
To our surprise, clutch pressure plate was full of clutch disk material. It seems that half of clutch disk just fell apart due to overheat or high revs, or whatever. Non of us had seen such clutch failure before. Half of the clutch disk was in a good shape and half of it was just gone. We found clutch disk material stuck in a pressure plate, which seems to be locked by that in open position, plate was not operating at all. Interesting! Fotos speak for themselves, have a look:Repair with a surprise!
We are almost ready
Another thing that must have been done - the exhaust pipe re-installed as there was a sound level limit of 92 dB introduced to F-200 racing rules. Meh.. worked hard with those rusty parts but eventually we made it.
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