# Service bulletin 050618

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10016789
- Published by NHTSA: 2005\-10\-07
- Manufacturer's number: 050618
- Manufacturer's date: 2005\-01\-01
- Replaces: 05126
- NHTSA component: SUSPENSION:REAR

## NHTSA's summary

REAR AXLE NOISE REPAIR. \*SC

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Suspension

## Vehicles listed

- 1997 to 2005 FORD EXPEDITION
- 2002 to 2005 FORD EXPLORER
- 1997 to 2005 FORD F\-150
- 1998 to 2005 LINCOLN NAVIGATOR
- 2002 to 2005 MERCURY MOUNTAINEER

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [1999077](/recalls/tc/1999077.md), 1999-05-06: Suspension
- [1999034](/recalls/tc/1999034.md), 1999-03-03: Suspension
- [1998147](/recalls/tc/1998147.md), 1998-07-21: Suspension
- [98V161000](/recalls/nhtsa/98V161000.md), 1998-07-15: FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY; SUSPENSION:REAR:SPRINGS:LEAF SPRING ASSEMBLY
- [1998095](/recalls/tc/1998095.md), 1998-05-12: Suspension
- [1997011](/recalls/tc/1997011.md), 1997-01-21: Suspension
- [96V252000](/recalls/nhtsa/96V252000.md), 1996-12-18: SUSPENSION:REAR

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [0765](/bulletins/10022279.md), 2007-07-25, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION:REAR:AXLE:NON\-POWERED AXLE ASSEMBLY. REAR AXLE TUBE FRACTURE AT CENTER CARRIER. \*KB
- [07109](/bulletins/10022160.md), 2007-07-13, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION:FRONT. VIBRATION FROM THE DRIVELINE AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS. \*KB
- [061916](/bulletins/10021178.md), 2007-03-19, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION:REAR:AXLE:NON\-POWERED AXLE ASSEMBLY. SHUDDER/VIBRATION ON MODERATE TO HARD ACCELERATION. \*KB
- [061510](/bulletins/10021072.md), 2007-02-27, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:AIR SUSPENSION SYSTEM. AIR SUSPENSION PERFORMANCE \- HEIGHT SENSOR LINKAGE ARM DISENGAGING. \*KB
- [051710](/bulletins/10018064.md), 2005-12-15, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION:FRONT:WHEEL BEARING. NOISE FROM REAR WHEEL HUB BEARINGS. \*TT
- [05919](/bulletins/10017938.md), 2005-12-08, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION. FRONT TIRE WEAR ON INSIDE AND/OR OUTSIDE EDGE. \*TT RAPID FEATHERING WEAR OF FRONT TIRES. \*TT RAPID SHOULDER \(TOE\) WEAR ON INSIDE EDGE OF FRONT TIRES. \*TT
- [050502](/bulletins/10017890.md), 2005-12-07, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION. FRONT END SHUDDER/VIBRATION WHEN BRAKING \- VEHICLES BUILT BEFORE 11/18/2004. \*TT
- [05131](/bulletins/10016794.md), 2005-10-08, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION. SHUDDER/VIBRATION ON MODERATE TO HARD ACCELERATION. \*SC
- [042419](/bulletins/10014096.md), 2005-04-28, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION:FRONT. REVISED PROCEDURE FOR ADJUSTING ALIGNMENT ON ALL SUSPENSIONS \- NEW RIGHT HAND UPPER CONTROL ARM DESIGN FOR TORSION BAR FRONT SUSPENSIONS. \*TT
- [18400](/bulletins/10012963.md), 2005-04-05, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:AIR SUSPENSION SYSTEM. FOUR CORNER LOAD LEVELING AIR SUSPENSION MAY EXHIBIT LEVELING CONCERNS, SUCH AS ONE FRONT CORNER DROPPING. INDIVIDUAL AIR SPRINGS AVAILABLE FOR SERVICE. \*TT

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