Flat towing 2003 Ford Explorer sport trac
Is the neutral kit ford makes for flat towing a 2003 Explorer sport trac simply electrical or is it mechanical and requiring major installation? Where or how can I find a dealer that knows how to inst...
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Teacher's Pet wrote:
...$3000 to replace just the chains, as the engine had to be pulled, but if they "dropped" $6-7000 for a factory long block, which all of the old parts would be reinstalled...this was a problem on that vintage 4.0 V-6. The rattling seemed to start lasting longer each with each start, but then I might have been just a touch paranoid...
You weren't paranoid. The automotive forums have a lot of these stories. My family just sold an '05 Explorer as a basket case because of Chains.
Ford had this 4.0 V6 Pushrod Engine. Ford of Germany said "We can hop this thing up with Overhead Camshafts." And they did. In a Vee-Design engine, one cylinder bank is a little forward of the other. To make a "shorter" engine, Ford of Germany put the Cam Drive of the "forward" bank on the REAR of the engine, using what would be the pushrod camshaft as a jackshaft to drive it. Just fine till you need to fix it! I don't know if the chain can be replaced just by removing the transmission either. Probably no clearance to the firewall. I know the flywheel/flex plate has to come off too, because of the cam drive having to reach down to the original camshaft gallery.
The Explorer to get is a 2006 V8 with the ZF Six-Speed Automatic...
