Cruzinit
Member
- Joined
- Apr 26, 2024
- Messages
- 20
- Reaction score
- 14
- Location
- Hawaii
- What engine do you have?
- V6 engine
- What year is your Sport Trac?
- 2004
- What Generation is your Sport Trac?
- 1st Gen Owner
Aloha all Sport Track Enthusiasts
I bought my 04 for only 1k, put in about $500 or so for basics. Been putting some miles on it (kids and dogs like it). I wasn't really listening for it but then I heard it, the engine was hot I was going downhill just coasting.
When i got home I busted out the stethoscope. Poking around Yup its in the back passenger side. Depressed I parked it for a week. Today I drove it with the dogs to the post office and back parked idleing facing down hill. Checking again more through for about 20 min. Pretty cool all the stull I can hear with a stethoscope. Injectors, belt pullys, front timing chains (sound good), anyways.
All points to rear timing chain/guides. I have a new valve cover gasket and will be pulling it soon. Hoping its just a timing chain tensioner.
I really really do not want to pull this engine ($1500 dog truck with 300K). Ill update with borescope pics.
My hacking brain thinks there has to be a way to design a "drop down from the top" Rear Cassette guides for almost end of life \ last chance Rear Cassette Ford SOHC 4.0. I started looking for a core to play with today. No good junk yards on the big island of Hawaii though. Updates to Follow![Call me hand :call_me: 🤙](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f919.png)
I bought my 04 for only 1k, put in about $500 or so for basics. Been putting some miles on it (kids and dogs like it). I wasn't really listening for it but then I heard it, the engine was hot I was going downhill just coasting.
When i got home I busted out the stethoscope. Poking around Yup its in the back passenger side. Depressed I parked it for a week. Today I drove it with the dogs to the post office and back parked idleing facing down hill. Checking again more through for about 20 min. Pretty cool all the stull I can hear with a stethoscope. Injectors, belt pullys, front timing chains (sound good), anyways.
All points to rear timing chain/guides. I have a new valve cover gasket and will be pulling it soon. Hoping its just a timing chain tensioner.
I really really do not want to pull this engine ($1500 dog truck with 300K). Ill update with borescope pics.
My hacking brain thinks there has to be a way to design a "drop down from the top" Rear Cassette guides for almost end of life \ last chance Rear Cassette Ford SOHC 4.0. I started looking for a core to play with today. No good junk yards on the big island of Hawaii though. Updates to Follow
![Call me hand :call_me: 🤙](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f919.png)