2005 Sport Trac XLT timing chain

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Brian

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What engine do you have?
V6 engine
What year is your Sport Trac?
2005
What Generation is your Sport Trac?
1st Gen Owner
About a week ago I got a real nasty rapping noise from the engine. Really hard to pin point the location so figure it wasn't valve train and not loud enough fer a rod. Managed to limp it to a local garage where a quick inspection seems to have confirmed my suspicions. Has anyone had to do this? And yes, I learned this motor has 2 chains. I don't have facilities to do this myself....I figure up to $2000 to fix. Opinions?
 
DIY? Your call, but expect to pay upwards of $5000 to have a qualified shop do it. Good luck.

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SWS, thanks but yeah....haven't done the job but not afraid of much at my age. Just don't have a garage here in the bush....yet. Local shop (only one for 60km) is pretty good. I figure up to $500 fer parts and about ten hours labour so another $1500 or so. Not sure where yer gettin $5000?
 
@Brian
Just from what I've read. Maybe "stealership" pricing? I may have misread posts regarding the $5000 price where the engine or long block was replaced with new or remanufactured. Either way, when the time comes I'll be using OE Ford or Motorcraft parts for my engine. As reputable as most Cloyes and Melling aftermarket parts are, I've read about early failures with their 4.0L SOHC timing chain components. Here's a thread I started on EF in 2017 with some interesting comments.

https://www.explorerforum.com/forum...inforced-timing-chain-guides-possible.458231/
 
Agree about OEM parts with internal components. And yeah, stealership prices. This is a dealer I'm using but the service manager is a neighbour and up here in BF nowhere folks tend to watch out fer each other. Anyhow, if it's more than $2000 I'll have a Sport Trac fer sale...
 
If it's got the 5R55E tranny, you may want to put the servo piston kit in it while the engine's out.
Remover the tranny, then the engine.
 
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Well, got word from the shop. Both chains are shot. They estimated $5000 to repair. Guess I was dreaming. Sooo, I'll be parting this out. I'll list it in the appropriate forum. Damn. Kinda hoped to not have to buy another vehicle.
 
@Brian,
Sorry for your pain!
 
Mine just started to rattle, quotes of $4000+, plus more if the cams have done any damage to the heads. Getting a new engine, $8500.
 
sb69mustang said:
Mine just started to rattle, quotes of $4000+, plus more if the cams have done any damage to the heads. Getting a new engine, $8500.
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Where you getting your 'new' engine from?
How do you know it's good quality?
 
cadman777 said:
Where you getting your 'new' engine from?
How do you know it's good quality?
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Don't know who the supplier is. My mechanic is sourcing it, from a source he trusts. Turns out many of the remanufactured engines are made by a few companies. Most are owned by LKQ. They seem to have gotten control, reason why prices are so high. They also control alot of the used engine market.
 
sb69mustang said:
Don't know who the supplier is. My mechanic is sourcing it, from a source he trusts. Turns out many of the remanufactured engines are made by a few companies. Most are owned by LKQ. They seem to have gotten control, reason why prices are so high. They also control alot of the used engine market.
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Too bad.
I HATE 'LKQ'.
They're a bunch of greedy lawyers who own it.
They nickel-and-dime you every time you go to the boneyard.
They killed all the good ma/pa yards around here.
Thing is, I'm used to getting a private shop to rebuild my engines.
Never trusted anyone but the guys I know.
We have a good shop around here.
The crankshaft guy has been doing it for over 50 years.
I hope he lives to 100!
Average cost for a long-block rebuild is around 4500.
But they don't do all the extras, which adds at least another 1k or 2k to the job.
 
The site remanns.com quoted me around 4500 with the installation kit that included water pump, gaskets, belt and hoses, everything specific to the engine. But it had to be shipped to a business address for the 5 year warranty to remain valid. Local businesses wanted over 5000 for labor and together that was over my budget.
 
Those prices are insane.
I remember back in the 90's I could get a large v6 long-block totally rebuilt to better than factory.
With the new parts added it came to a little over 1200.
Prices today are extortion.
There is no reason for them to be so high, esp. considering that everything is made with slave labor overseas.
It all comes down to 1 thing: GREED.
 

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