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8.0

pretty bad

Typical Repair Cost:

$1,300.00

Average Mileage:

95,000 miles

Total Complaints:

2 complaints

Most common solutions:

  1. not sure (1 reports)
  2. replace plastic (!!) chain tensioner and sprockets (1 reports)
Ford Explorer Sport Trac engine problems

engine problem

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problem #2

2009Feb 23

Explorer Sport Trac 4.0L

  • Automatic transmission
  • 81,000 miles

$160.00 part , after market spring tension that Ford should have put on in the first place. The big price tag is the $650.00 for labor, taking most of the engine apart just to get to this problem which seems to have been a problem on older model truck which was never engineered properly. Can YOU say Lemon.....

cadddmannn65

Perry, Ohio, USA

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problem #1

2007Apr 28

(reported on)

Explorer Sport Trac 4.0L SOHC V6

  • Automatic transmission
  • 109,000 miles

This is truly engineering Stupidity. Ford designed an engine where the chain that drives the camshaft is constantly rubbing a fix plastic object - the tensioner. No, not a tensioner like a belt has with an idler pully that spins and keeps the belt tight. No, this is a fix piece of plastic that the chain slides over to keep the chain tight and not chattering. Duh Ford, its going to wear out! Better yet, its not adjustable. So as it wears the chain gets loose and begins to get sloppy and chatters. Also, where's the plastic going as it wears off the tensioner? Does that go in the oil and pollute the rest of the engine? I read somewhere all Ford OHV engines use chains and not belts. Does anyone know if they use tensioners like the one in this engine? If so, I'll never buy another Ford like it. No wonder the Japanese use belts. I'll never complain about the couple hundred it takes to change one of their belts again. This Ford just set me back $1,300. Buyer beware!!!!

Jay W.

Landisville, PA, USA

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