# Service bulletin SSM 48005

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: 10160945
- Published by NHTSA: 2019\-06\-07
- Manufacturer's number: SSM 48005
- Manufacturer's date: 2019\-05\-24
- NHTSA component: POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DRIVESHAFT; POWER TRAIN

## NHTSA's summary

If a 2015\-2017 Transit vehicle originally equipped with a rubber flexible coupling requires replacement of the driveshaft assembly and/or transmission output flange, refer to the parts catalog supersession information for a complete list of the required parts. The service strategy has changed, and these repairs must now be completed by installing a new driveshaft and transmission output flange coupled with a u\-joint.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10160945-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10160945-9999.pdf)

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## Components

Transmission and driveline, Driveshaft

## Vehicles listed

- 2015 to 2017 FORD TRANSIT

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [19V767000](/recalls/nhtsa/19V767000.md), 2019-10-25: POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DRIVESHAFT
- [19V103000](/recalls/nhtsa/19V103000.md), 2019-02-21: POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DRIVESHAFT; POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:UNIVERSAL JOINT
- [17V408000](/recalls/nhtsa/17V408000.md), 2017-06-26: POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DRIVESHAFT

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [TSB 22\-2444](/bulletins/10226939.md), 2022-12-02, Service bulletin: UNKNOWN OR OTHER; POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DRIVESHAFT; POWER TRAIN. This article supersedes TSB 22\-2271 to update the vehicle model years affected. Some 2015\-2023 Transit vehicles equipped with rear wheel drive \(RWD\), single rear wheel \(only\), and U\-joints at the transmission flange and rear driveshaft may experience a boom/hum/moan noise from the rear while driving. This noise is most noticeable at highway speeds: 112\-121 km/h \(70\-75 mph\) for 4.10 axle ratio 121\-128 km/h \(75\-80 mph\) for 3.73 axle ratio 136\-145 km/h \(85\-90 mph\) for 3.31 axle ratio The noise may also be present to a lesser degree at roughly half of the noted speeds. This may be due to a 2nd order driveline frequency transmitted through the rear driveshaft, rear axle and into the body through the leaf springs. To correct the condition, follow the Service Procedure to install a driveshaft torsional damper. NOTE: The torsional damper will not resolve a vibration.
- [XLF\-SFT02\-12](/bulletins/10154156.md), 2019-03-04, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DRIVESHAFT. Technical Service Bulletin informing customers of XL Hybrid 130" wheel base Ford Transit vehicles that the front drive shaft of vehicles should be lubricated immediately with grease and then every 6,000 miles subsequently.

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