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I need help trouble-shooting.
My explorer was making a piercing metal on metal sound on start-up, then would run rough, but I could drive it 20 miles to work and it was fine. This was when I first noticed drops of coolant on the bottom of the bellhousing, about a week ago. I first thought maybe a starter was staying engaged, so I put a new starter in, and it was the same problems, so I put the old one back in.... Then I thought it minght be a pulley, so I pulled the belt, and all the pulleys felt fine. With the belt removed, it was just as loud on startup and ran rough, but not as rough.
Then on the way to work it ran very rough, and started to loose a ton of power. I could smell something burning and the explorer started running even rougher, so I pulled it over and shut it down within about 3 seconds. I looked under and there was a little more coolant steaming off the exhaust near the bellhousing. The car was seized and I couldn't start it... this was about 9am.
I went back at noon and there isn't ANY coolant leaking (no puddle at all), but the motor is still seized. When I turn the key, I can just hear the selenoid.
So what do you think is the problem??? could it be a broken rod (that didn't punch through the case)... bad water pump? anything to do with the flywheel?
oil looks brown, very brown, not milky at all... coolant level is still as high as always too.
I swear the coolant is coming from between where the bellhousing bolts to the block.
haven't tried to turn it by hand... the semis passing 3' away and making the Explorer sway scares the piss out of me, especially while I was under it trying to find a hole in the block.... It there was a hole, wouldn't all the coolant drain out?
For the last week it has been making a rattle that seems to be coming from the bottom of the the block, but thats just where it appears to be coming frome... could be resonating from a pulley/flywheel and just sounds like it's coming from there.
My explorer was making a piercing metal on metal sound on start-up, then would run rough, but I could drive it 20 miles to work and it was fine. This was when I first noticed drops of coolant on the bottom of the bellhousing, about a week ago. I first thought maybe a starter was staying engaged, so I put a new starter in, and it was the same problems, so I put the old one back in.... Then I thought it minght be a pulley, so I pulled the belt, and all the pulleys felt fine. With the belt removed, it was just as loud on startup and ran rough, but not as rough.
Then on the way to work it ran very rough, and started to loose a ton of power. I could smell something burning and the explorer started running even rougher, so I pulled it over and shut it down within about 3 seconds. I looked under and there was a little more coolant steaming off the exhaust near the bellhousing. The car was seized and I couldn't start it... this was about 9am.
I went back at noon and there isn't ANY coolant leaking (no puddle at all), but the motor is still seized. When I turn the key, I can just hear the selenoid.
So what do you think is the problem??? could it be a broken rod (that didn't punch through the case)... bad water pump? anything to do with the flywheel?
oil looks brown, very brown, not milky at all... coolant level is still as high as always too.
I swear the coolant is coming from between where the bellhousing bolts to the block.
haven't tried to turn it by hand... the semis passing 3' away and making the Explorer sway scares the piss out of me, especially while I was under it trying to find a hole in the block.... It there was a hole, wouldn't all the coolant drain out?
For the last week it has been making a rattle that seems to be coming from the bottom of the the block, but thats just where it appears to be coming frome... could be resonating from a pulley/flywheel and just sounds like it's coming from there.