Oliver Grey
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- September 3, 2018
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- City, State
- Reno, NEVADA
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2004 Ford Explorer
Hello all, so let’s get straight to the point. My 2005 Explorer is dead.
I was driving down the road and noticed an unusual amount of shaking in the steering wheel, nothing too crazy just something I kind of took note of. Then It got a little worse a few miles later, so I shut it off and stareted it up was doing the same thing. Then I got on the highway and a mile down the highway my check engine light started flashing at me. So I Pulled over at the next off ramp turned her off and started it again, this time it had a hard time cranking over but it successfully did, the idle was worse then before and the engine was shaking severely. So I turned it off and decided I needed to tow it home. I ran the codes and I am getting codes for
Cylinder 1 misfire
bank 1 running to lean
So I tried cranking it over at the house with the plug pulled to see if I’m getting spark. The motor seems to be stalled, I can’t even get it to crank even a half turn. It wants to crank but it seems like something is jamming it.
So I jump the battery assuming it may be too dead to crank the motor, it cranks over twice and stalls again. I did have spark.
I continued jumping the battery for another 10 minutes while I reassembled the spark plug and put the air box back on. When to crank it over and nothing again just the little half crank sound and it stops. I don’t know what this could be, I’m very puzzled.
2005 Explorer
130,000
Just did an oil change 600 miles ago
Mobile 1 oil
And it’s been maintained very well from what I could tell when I bought it.
Just start throwing ideas at me I have nowhere to even go from here.
I was driving down the road and noticed an unusual amount of shaking in the steering wheel, nothing too crazy just something I kind of took note of. Then It got a little worse a few miles later, so I shut it off and stareted it up was doing the same thing. Then I got on the highway and a mile down the highway my check engine light started flashing at me. So I Pulled over at the next off ramp turned her off and started it again, this time it had a hard time cranking over but it successfully did, the idle was worse then before and the engine was shaking severely. So I turned it off and decided I needed to tow it home. I ran the codes and I am getting codes for
Cylinder 1 misfire
bank 1 running to lean
So I tried cranking it over at the house with the plug pulled to see if I’m getting spark. The motor seems to be stalled, I can’t even get it to crank even a half turn. It wants to crank but it seems like something is jamming it.
So I jump the battery assuming it may be too dead to crank the motor, it cranks over twice and stalls again. I did have spark.
I continued jumping the battery for another 10 minutes while I reassembled the spark plug and put the air box back on. When to crank it over and nothing again just the little half crank sound and it stops. I don’t know what this could be, I’m very puzzled.
2005 Explorer
130,000
Just did an oil change 600 miles ago
Mobile 1 oil
And it’s been maintained very well from what I could tell when I bought it.
Just start throwing ideas at me I have nowhere to even go from here.