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Well...its been four weeks and I still don't have my Explorer...Who needs it! I look great driving my magenta Mercury Mistique loaner. My maintenance department wants to take a cutting torch to it, and see if they can stuff some 31 X 10.5's underneath it. I think the dealer, who has actually...

Proceed with caution! Your dealership is probably replacing one tensioner, which most likely will not fix your problem. If you read my originating post, I also had the $350 fix from my first dealer. This did not solve the rattle for more than a week. I will get an in-depth explaination from...

Tensioners As of today, my explorer has been at the dealership for three weeks. It seems that there is a back-order for replacement tensioners, even though the original ones supposedly are not defective. Total cost should run about $1200-$1500. Ouch! You say you had to have a rental the...

I have a '97 SOHC V6 with the timing chain tensioner problems. I have read with great dismay the strings concerning this. I am wondering if mditto, TEC-1, rockyboy, or if anyone else has been able to get this resolved. I took my explorer in four times under warranty with no resolve. I...

If you are referring to the Michelins LTX M/S, the M/S stands for Mud & Snow, but with it's tread design it falls into the all-terrain category.

I also have a 97 Explorer 4.0L v6 SOHC, which I absolutely loved for the first six months of ownership. Since then I have been plagued with similar engine knock, throttle body replacements, bad timing chain tensioners, and engine surging. I take it to my local dealer who gives me the "computer...

I am very interested in this topic. I took my '97 to a local dealer when it began to tick or rattle when first started. The sound was similiar to the way a small import engine sounds if it gets low on oil. When I picked it up it cost me a couple of hundred, but sounded great. They said it was...

I am very interested in this topic. I took my '97 to a local dealer when it began to tick or rattle when first started. The sound was similiar to the way a small import engine sounds if it gets low on oil. When I picked it up it cost me a couple of hundred, but sounded great. They said it...