03 EDGE w/ 3.0 NO Compression
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03 EDGE w/ 3.0 NO Compression
Yesturday my son's truck started running rough, had no power and the engine light came on. He took it to the dealer to have them look at it thinking it might be the fuel injection or something electrical, they called back and said his #6 cylinder had no compession and that the #4 cylinder had 20% and they need to take the engine apart to find the problem. We searched this site to see if anyone else has had or herd of this problem.
He has had the rough idle problem before but the dealer could find nothing wrong, and the #6 cylinder would show up on the diognostic reading but found no problem.
The truck has 70,000 miles and maintained regularly, I thougt these engines were bullet proof and would get 150,000 miles easily or maybe the dealer is trying to screw him. He does have a warranty on the truck.
He has had the rough idle problem before but the dealer could find nothing wrong, and the #6 cylinder would show up on the diognostic reading but found no problem.
The truck has 70,000 miles and maintained regularly, I thougt these engines were bullet proof and would get 150,000 miles easily or maybe the dealer is trying to screw him. He does have a warranty on the truck.
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My son had an 03 Explorer with a 3.0. He had a valve spring go bad at around 40k miles or so. It broke when he started it up after work one day and ran very rough as you describe. Sounds like they had a bad batch of valve springs.
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Originally Posted by xlt4me
My son had an 03 Explorer with a 3.0. He had a valve spring go bad at around 40k miles or so. It broke when he started it up after work one day and ran very rough as you describe. Sounds like they had a bad batch of valve springs.
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Originally Posted by Bob Ayers
The 03 Explorer never had the 3.0L. Only the SOHC 4.0L, and the 4.6L V-8.
I thought it was the 3.0. I remember it was the smaller of the two available and had the smaller hitch.
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If he does in fact have a warranty, then why would the dealership want to try to screw him? Let the dealer deal with the warranty company, as they are very well trained in this. That way if they are wrong, then they HAVE to make it right as warranty companies, even if it's Ford, don't screw around with that sort of thing.
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Originally Posted by jwhracer
Yesturday my son's truck started running rough, had no power and the engine light came on. He took it to the dealer to have them look at it thinking it might be the fuel injection or something electrical, they called back and said his #6 cylinder had no compession and that the #4 cylinder had 20% and they need to take the engine apart to find the problem. We searched this site to see if anyone else has had or herd of this problem.
He has had the rough idle problem before but the dealer could find nothing wrong, and the #6 cylinder would show up on the diognostic reading but found no problem.
The truck has 70,000 miles and maintained regularly, I thougt these engines were bullet proof and would get 150,000 miles easily or maybe the dealer is trying to screw him. He does have a warranty on the truck.
He has had the rough idle problem before but the dealer could find nothing wrong, and the #6 cylinder would show up on the diognostic reading but found no problem.
The truck has 70,000 miles and maintained regularly, I thougt these engines were bullet proof and would get 150,000 miles easily or maybe the dealer is trying to screw him. He does have a warranty on the truck.
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If it was my truck, I'd sure want to know what was wrong and what was done to fix it. If you do find out, post it up...
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They replaced the head and pistons, so i'm sure it had something to do with the valves would be my guess.
Originally Posted by john112deere
If it was my truck, I'd sure want to know what was wrong and what was done to fix it. If you do find out, post it up...
