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Thanks for the help, plugs have been changed, yeah i was aware of the power steering noise from my 'ol 82 chevy pickup. Maybe Creager is right, I never think of the X as a truck...I treat it like a car, but it sure acts like a truck, IE my 97 c/k 3500 has too many parts to number! (and...

http://www.gstonemotors.com/ this is my shop... Uh, yeah I first came to this site to see how people modify and customize their rigs, some pretty nice! But jeeze I drive the thing for a while... check out http://www.carsurvey.org/modelyear_Ford_Explorer_1999.html half are negative. I try to...

uh yeah, add new tie rods due to a nice shimmy in the front end...I can take pics of the faulty part if you wish. Right on time again for it's monthly breakdown and only once did I take it to the shop chaffed airbag wires were wires that were rubbed down to the metal and thereby shorted...

It can't be just me, but my 1998 Explorer can’t go for more than two weeks without wanting another $150 for who knows what. When I get a new problem and the first thing I do is search the forums and I find fifteen threads here how people try to fix it....WTF Given, my car does have 145k on...

I get the same nasty noise in my 98 AWD, from time to time, when I get up to highway speed. It's a very loud rattle accelerating, decelerating, turning. I can put it in neutral and rev the engine no noise, put it in gear it's back so it wasn't engine or another thought, heat plate, but they...

I just replaced my lower ball joints no my 98 AWD and the Chilton book says that they couldn't be replaced! just go buy a whole lower control arm! Well I replaced them anyways, had to take the CV joint off to get it out, quite a long ordeal, but I did get the chance to beat the rust of my...

Wow thanks for all the info. Been sifting through the website for other things I should do/install, one was a transmission cooler... when I went to examine the underside of the vehicle before I purchased it, I already had one! I was initially worried that it was stock and the cheap low...

Hey thanks for the input. Got the oil+filter changed and the coolant flushed. As to looking onto bigger and better things, I do get a whine from the engine, and from what I have heard from explorers driving by it's not to uncommon. Perhaps it is a power steering pump? I am worried the...

Got out of my 93 GC into a 98 XLT, ran through the search engine here, GREAT site!, but I can't seem to weed out some things. Fourth day I had it, there was INTENCE SCREECHING from the right rear...believed it to be a rock in the brake or something, it went away, but this was WAY too loud for...