Precisely why I sold my Explorer.... BEFORE that **** happened! It's inevitable!

 

Update: 156,000+ after fix and still going strong.

 

I hadn't seen any real pictures of your guys/problems. I've started getting into ford engines just recently.

A buddy of mine can to me asking me to fix his noisy explorer and thus i wandered on to this site. But with a little google, and an air-conditioned garage.

I did all his tensioners and good overall inspection for about 350. Took about 14 hours from start to finish.

But in case anyone ever needs some future info: Here is a pretty pic, sorry its so late.



The only real excuse we have for not fixing something the right way is straight up lazyness. Shame on Ford.

 

do they make a kit per say for this ???

 

if you go to exolorerform.com one of the posts says there is a recall nn the fords with this issue with the 4.0 l engine. ford is doing every thing Not to take the hit on there crap. I talked with the ford tec supervisor yesterday and i asked him what oil to put in the 4.0l motor, he said 5w20. i told him I had been using 5w30! then he said I had been using the Wrong oil. Then I showed him my book! It says 5w20 for the 4.6l and 5w30 for the 4.0l. he then tried to get my book and then said "you did not change your oil every 3000 miles. Any excuse they can come up with is there game. then he said that the diffrence in oils would not cause the issue. do these people have any value system at all.
I look up the goverment recall on this motor, 25, that it just 25.. From what I have been reading for the past 2 weeks there are more than 25 people who have this issue. the only way to get "FORD" to fix there crapie engine if for people to start calling the goverment and complain about this. We need for people to call,call,call. look what people did tp toyota. if we just think, owe well, nothong will get done.. Its crap to think ford did know about this issue and just think they could waite it out call and hope most of the engines would go out of warenty so they would "NOT" have to fix them.
if my spelling sucks, thats because I am pissed. call 888-327-4236 this is the only way we can get ford to fix there crap. dont just bitch call the number.

 

Its me again. called FTC.gov phone 1-877-382-4357 they told me if you have one of these engines and have the same issue with the cam tensioners and ford has there reasons Not to fix it, call them and file a complaint. do it now. the more we get the better it is for us with thwat p o s engine.

 

Dragging up an old thread but I just finished replacing the timing chains on a 2001 Sport Trac and it was an adventure. The rear timing cassette plastic failed and made one hell of a racket. The timing chain didn't skip (thankfully) and the valves looked great. This engine only has 112,000 KM on it as we don't drive it much. I am at a loss how someone can do this job in 14 hours?!?!?!?! Pulling the engine and re-install alone was more than that.
A hateful engine, I'm glad the job is done and I never want to do that again. I have a cam timing tool kit that I will never use again as well.
I can't believe Ford designed and sold this engine design.

Is there any outstanding issues with the 4.6L in 2010 Sport Trac? I would like to get rid of the 2001 and upgrade to a 2010.

 

I believe the 4.6 is a pretty fail-safe engine. Some years had issues with head gasket leaks and others had sparkplugs blow out as well as others had sparkplugs that broke upon removal.
My Mark VIII 4.6 DOHC has had no engine issues and is now at 197,000 miles and my Navigator 5.4 DOHC did have a plug blow out a few weeks back that I repaired with a minimal amount of sweat and cussing. Ford's DOHC V8s seem to be the most reliable engines that they have produced in recent years but they are no longer in production. The Lincoln Aviator was the last to use the 4.6 DOHC and there are some very low mileage ones available on the used market. My Mark VIII gets over 20 mpg around town and the Navigator is pretty consistant at about 17 mpg. I don't baby either of them and love to stomp on the gas once in a while.

 

Could you please be more specific about what year 5.4 was that had the plug blow out?

 

My 5.4 DOHC is a 2001 engine in a 2000 Navigator and could have been due to a previous servicer over-tightening or under-tightening the plug in question. You never know with a used vehicle or engine.

 

Thanks, so that would be a 2 valve engine?

 

It is a 5.4 DOHC 4 valves per cylinder or 32 valve engine.

 

WHat yr of sohc 4.0l does this apply to. Thanks

 

That must be so - wilkipedia shows that the 2 valve v8 engines have the plug thread issues, the 3 valve v8's have the breaking plug issues. No reported problems with the 4 valve.

 

How do you go about setting the time on their pc of crap I have a 2003 Exploder and have the timing chain clank. I just replaced the rear timing chain, guides, tensioners have drove it for about 1 mo and now the noise is put me down again after 1800.00 in repairs that Ford didnt do!!! Please help as I am spent! Thanks for any input you can offer.