No, I'm saying this is my florida.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This has to be a joke.

 

Custom sterio--LMAO

 

Garage kept?? theres cancer forming on the rear wheel well...

 

Worth every penny!

 

The 5.0 Exploder has been squealing real loud when you first crank it for a few seconds, especially when its cold out. Thought it was one of the idler pulleys but wasn't sure which one. Plus my shoulder has been so ****ed up I just took it to my buddy's shop to let them fix it.

Wasn't either one. Cam synchronizer was going bad. Just went ahead and let them change the oil and rotate the tires while they had it, so that's one less thing I'll have to do this week. Time for my spring time haircut tomorrow.

 

My friends Pathfinder squeals like heck for about 30 seconds and then is quiet. He's had it checked numerous times do you think it could be the same thing?

 

My explorer has been squeaking too. Usually goes away after it warms up.

 

ok so mummy just bought one of these ...
and laughed out loud, asking me if hers can do this LOL

 

Not sure what kind of set up those have. This is basically what replaced the distributor when they went to the coil pack ignitions on Fords. It goes in the same hole where the distributor went, even looks like a distributor without the top part where the cap would go. Drives off the cam gear to send a signal when to fire and pulse the injector.

Looks like this....



That's what mine was doing. Apparently its a known problem at high mileage on these things. And since it drives off the cam gear just like a distributor, it also drives the oil pump like a distributor. If it locks up, well you can imagine whats going to happen. Glad I took it to him now, I thought about just waiting until I got back from vacation since I thought it was just a tensioner pulley and it wasn't doing it very much after the temps started warming up.

Imagine that ****er locking up on the interstate in the middle of bumble**** Alabama, that would be no fun.

Google some stuff about it, you'll see plenty.

 

How hard is it to replace? Pricy?

 

He charged me $200, $90 of it was for the part. It shouldn't be too hard to put in the 5.0 since its in the front of the motor where the distributor used to be. Some of the v-6s would be a real ***** since it was in the back.

 

Mine wasn't a steady loud squealing when it did it, it was more like a fast chirping. I figure it would eventually go to a constant squealing sound the worse it got.

 

That looks way more involved than I'm capable of. I'd probably mess something up and just make it worse. It could just be a squeaky belt too. lol

 

It could be one of those pulleys going bad like I thought mine was, it has two. One is just an idler and the other is a tensioner and I couldn't determine which one it was (although it was neither, lol). Heck, took it up there intending to just let him replace both of them, they're both the ones that came on it and after 200K I figured it couldn't hurt.

One way to tell for sure if its that cam sync would be to take the belt off of it one morning when the car is cold and crank it up. If there's no racket, its something in the belt or pulleys. If there is the racket, its probably that cam sync.