fullmonte44
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- 2002 ford explorer
hello, all. This my first post, so greetings.
My son has an '02 explorer with the V-8 engine, we need help identifying a coolant part. He was driving home and heard a loud pop. Within a mile or two, lights started flashing, pulled over and opened hood, and coolant was all over.
He caught a ride home, we went back and put 2 gallons of A/F in the expansion tank, started engine and in about a minute water was running to ground from somewhere on back of engine. So we took the top plastic cover off, then could see: he just started engine and I immediately told him to shut it off: there is a small plastic spout spitting out coolant, this is at upper rear of engine in the center, just to the passenger side of engine but still in the center. This spout or fitting rises straight up from the rear center of engine, about 2 inches high, but we looked and couldn't see what the other end was that must have popped off here. There is also a vacuum fitting there with nothing to plug into, like there was a water valve, vacuum controlled, on this fitting.
It got dark on us, couldn't see more. Can any of you shed light on this fitting, where it goes, what it does?
My son said this explorer has rear climate controls, like a rear heater core. could this b a fitting for that? The size of the hose for it would be like a heater hose, it looks.
My son has an '02 explorer with the V-8 engine, we need help identifying a coolant part. He was driving home and heard a loud pop. Within a mile or two, lights started flashing, pulled over and opened hood, and coolant was all over.
He caught a ride home, we went back and put 2 gallons of A/F in the expansion tank, started engine and in about a minute water was running to ground from somewhere on back of engine. So we took the top plastic cover off, then could see: he just started engine and I immediately told him to shut it off: there is a small plastic spout spitting out coolant, this is at upper rear of engine in the center, just to the passenger side of engine but still in the center. This spout or fitting rises straight up from the rear center of engine, about 2 inches high, but we looked and couldn't see what the other end was that must have popped off here. There is also a vacuum fitting there with nothing to plug into, like there was a water valve, vacuum controlled, on this fitting.
It got dark on us, couldn't see more. Can any of you shed light on this fitting, where it goes, what it does?
My son said this explorer has rear climate controls, like a rear heater core. could this b a fitting for that? The size of the hose for it would be like a heater hose, it looks.