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Finally back in business. Unfortunatly I do not know what I did. I tried jumping the two metal posts on the starter relay and the starter wined a little. I kept trying this until I smelled something burning. I unplugged the neg post on battery and found that the coil pack condensor was very...

I finally replaced the pos and neg battery cables, what a pain. Still nothing from the starter. I took the starter in and autozone said it was bad. New starter is now installed, still not turning over. The starter, pos and neg battery cables, starter relay, and ignition switch are all...

update well, had the car towed home. I replaced the starter solenoid relay (by the battery and fuse panel) and the ignition switch (on the base of the steering column). For a while, I no longer would blow the ign fuse- but it still would not start. The proper dash lights would come on...

Thanks to all who replied with ideas. I purchased both pos and neg battery cables, ignition switch, starter solonoid switch. Autozone ran out of the mega 60A fuses, so I had to have the car towed home. I'll work on it this week and post back if I had any luck. Does anyone know where the...

Alec, Thanks for the response. The switch did cross my mind, it just seems like a big coincidence that I was working with water and now I have a short somewhere. You are right though, I will look at the switch. edit:: I just remembered one other thing that may make this easier to...

Would a faulty computer blow fuses? One other odd thing I forgot to mention in my first post is that once the fuse was replaced and the engine turned over, the dash lights did come on but very faintly. It seems as though power is being seriously drained during ignition. Thanks for your...

93 xlt with 110k miles. Driving home tonight and the engine cut out for about 2 seconds then caught itself and ran fine. About 20 minutes later, the engine just died completely. Both times it cut out I was accelerating. I coasted into a parking lot and tried to start the car. No turning...

When I was replacing the clutch pack, I removed the drum and replaced wheels and had the same drag so I doubt it is the brakes. The clutch pack was not that hard once I got into it and figured out what needed to come out. It cost me $56 throuth the dealer. If you have a haynes manual and can...

I have noticed that if I jack up the rear end with both wheels off the ground, the wheels are difficult to rotate by hand forwards and even more difficult backwards when the tranny is in neutral. I know it is not the brakes (I replaced the LS clutch pack and tore apart the brakes a few months...

Ok then, I have a question for you. My CEL light is not on, but I ran a code scanner and came up with MAF low voltage. I am getting poor gas mileage and have changed out the O2 sensors within the last 3 months. Would a good cleaning clear up the MAF or is this something that probably need...

I used the mopar combustion chamber cleaner on my eclipse recently and don't see why it wouldn't work on an explorer. I did exactly as mentioned above: 1 full can into TB at just above idle, let set 2 hours, run hard. Then pull the plugs, spray 1/2 can in each cylinder and wait overnight. In...

Thanks, I guess this is normal. I still seems odd for the temp to vary that much (back and forth) over the course of a few miles, it is always good to find someone else with the same thing. Thanks again Steve

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I have a 93 xlt with 108k miles. I have noticed recently that the guage for engine temp starts low, goes up to the "o" in "normal" and back down low alternating back and forth as I am driving. This did not happen for the first many years I have drivin it, no matter what the outside temp was...

OK, I have a 93 XLT with 3.73 and Traction-lok differential. One thing that has somewhat confused me is that our auto tranny shifts into what seems like 5 different gears. It shifts from 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, then kindof a half shift, 4-5. I believe the newer explorers do have a 4 speed auto with...

Gary, Thanks for the reply. The problem for me is that the outer spider gears appear to be locked tightly in the housing. It seems that all 4 of these gears have a little flange that sticks into the housing not letting them simple slide off. They do not move toward the center because they...

Gary, I was hoping to do the clutch rebuild in the housing, but could not for the life of me figure out how to remove the side and spider gears once the s spring was removed. They all seem pretty well packed in the housing, I assumed that if the housing was removed, one side would come loose...

Thanks Jon, That was what I was wondering. I did remove the small bolt that held the center shaft (that went through the center of the spider? gears. I did this to remove the clutch 'S' spring. Is that the bolt you were referring to with the locktite? Did you remove the large round ring...

another update Ok, purchased the clutch kit, pulled out pinion, the 'S' spring between the gears, pulled off the two bearing mounts on either side of the differential case. Now I'm stuck. Does the diff case come out? the race will absolutely not come out of the housing. How in the world...

I'll play around with the drive shaft. The wheel seems to spin MUCH better hand turning forward than reverse, to me it seems that this is a problem closer to the tranny than the differential. Any thoughts? Steve

One last question. If both wheels are off the ground (so that the clutch doesn't need to function) should it still be tough to turn one side or the other (both spinning freely) while in neutral? Keep in mind that the drums are off so the brakes offer no resistance. Thanks for all the...

update OK, took the diff cover off and besides having dark fluid, nothing looked bad. I'm not really sure how the clutch should look, but everything looks as though it is still in place (according to the haynes manual pics). No big chunks of anything hanging around in the oil. I removed both...

Just checked out the door label and I do have the traction lok differential. It made a mention in the haynes manual about the clutch pack associated with this traction lok axle, but no directions or anything. Are there any directions that come with the rebuild kit? I've been working on cars...

Thanks Jon, When we bought the explorer, the only thing I came across was that it had some sort of traction lock or different gear ratio from the factory. Do you think that the difficulty in turning the wheel could be due to bad fluid alone?? What I really am hoping for is that I can clean...

First post here. I have a 93 ford explorer 4x4 w/ auto tranny and have noticed that there is a noticeable drag on the car when driving. I thought the front calipers might be sticking so I jacked both front sides and the wheels spun without much drag. I went to the rear and thought maybe the...