clarehills

Hi, I have a loose drive train, at low speeds when I am not under acceleration and still in gear the car can sometimes lurch back and forth as the drive catches up with loseness somewhere along the drive train. Is there anyway to fix this? Would a new drive shaft or drive shaft joints help at all, or perhaps they have nothing to do with it?
Thanks
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clarehills

Should have mentioed the spec on the car:

2003 GT Manual

jman511115

It's normal. Every 5 speed mustang I've ever driven has done this. An easy way to fix this is to not get into the gas too hard after coasting against the engine. Touch it softly to get the engine to "catch up" to the rear wheels, then hammer it.

Edit: There's no real way to fix it by replacing parts. Solid motor mounts will help, but the transmission and rear end also have a lot to do with it.

cliffyk

+1, it's a relatively high torque capacity, front engine RWDdriveline, and that's the way they are--practice doing as "jman" says and you'll get good at working around it.

clarehills

Thanks for the feedback lads, ya, it took me a while but I do just that to make it go away - but when the wife drives it - fock!

Dan04COBRA

Take a look at your u-joints and transmission mounts. These cars have clunky 'loose' feeling drivetrains, there isn't much you can do about it.

In my 02 GT it was excessively bad and my transmission mount was not in good shape. After replacing it, it really gave it a much tighter feeling.

1fstblckgt

Check your u-joints... could possibly be about to go out.

OzzDOA

+1 for the driveline just being on the clunky side. As said before just make sure the u-joints are in good shape. I would think that lower the rotational mass of the driveline with an aluminum drive shaft and flywheel might help a little.