# Service bulletin SSM 46098

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: 10109076
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-08\-01
- Manufacturer's number: SSM 46098
- Manufacturer's date: 2016\-09\-29
- NHTSA component: POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY

## NHTSA's summary

2013\-2017 Fusion, MKZ and C\-Max Hybrid and Energi vehicles equipped with HF35 eCVT transaxles may have literature published that lists either a 2.56 or 2.57 axle ratio. For service and parts ordering purposes, both are the same. The difference in the displayed ratio originates from rounding differences between systems which results in the discrepancy.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10109076-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10109076-0001.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Transmission and driveline, Axle

## Vehicles listed

- 2013 to 2017 FORD C\-MAX
- 2013 to 2017 FORD FUSION
- 2013 to 2017 LINCOLN MKZ

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [TSB 19\-2017](/bulletins/10156860.md), 2019-04-08, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN; POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY:AXLE SHAFT:SEAL. Some all\-wheel drive \(AWD\) 2013\-2018 Escape vehicles equipped with 1.5L/1.6L/2.0L EcoBoost/Fusion vehicles equipped with 2.0L/2.7L EcoBoost/MKZ vehicles equipped with 2.0L EcoBoost, 2017\-18 MKZ vehicles equipped with 3.0L EcoBoost, 2015\-2018 MKC vehicles equipped with 2.0L/2.3L EcoBoost/Edge vehicles equipped with 2.0L/2.7L EcoBoost, 2016\-2018 MKX vehicles equipped with 2.0L and 2.7L EcoBoost/Explorer vehicles equipped with 2.3L EcoBoost/Focus RS equipped with 2.3L EcoBoost, and 2017\-2018 Continental vehicles equipped with 2.7L/3.0L EcoBoost may exhibit a dark black fluid leak from the right side transfer case intermediate shaft seal. Follow the Service Procedure steps to correct the condition.

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