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- 1996 "Sport" XLT 4.0L OHV
1st off, I just recently found this site and it has renewed my excitement about my exploder. I appreciate that . I do have a few questions about some issues with my explorer I was hoping you all could help me answer. I have a '96 XLT 4.0 with 189,000 miles on it. It runs GREAT and I like to keep up with it, which brings me to my questions...
I have the 2WD, 4WD Auto, and 4WD Low option. I just recently got the tranny and xfer case completely rebuilt with a 12/12 warranty on both through Ammco. Well, I'm dangerouly approaching 12,000 miles. When I put my truck in '4WD Auto' you can hear 2 simultanous poping noises like locking hubs are engauging? (but this isn't as loud as the double poping noise that you hear when you engauge the 4WD Low) Everything seems to be normal at this point until you go any distance the 4WD Auto and 4WD Low lights will flash simultaniously 6 times about every 2-3 minutes. I also hear a great deal of low tone noise comming from the front of the vehicle (especially when turning or stopping while in a sharp turn I hear clunking) which seems abnormal to me for 4WD Auto. It almost feels like its in 4WD Low.
In 2WD I normally get some poping from the front end when I'm going over large bumps or pot holes which I believe is the half shafts (or at least it has to be since I have replaced EVERYTHING else in the front suspenstion IE. ball joints, upper control arms, bushings, front sway bar bushings, all around shocks, end links.) The wierd part is the poping doesn't normally occure while turning (in 2WD), which I thought was a characteristic of half shafts.
I have looked for a listing of 4WD error codes on the internet some, where I came up empty. I also went to a Ford service dept who couldn't tell me what the 4x4 lights flashing 6 times meant. I would like to figure out if this is a problem with the transfer case so I can get it fixed under warranty. The wierd thing is this was doing this before I got the xfer case rebuilt but I just never used 4WD Auto long enough to bring up the codes, until recently when I realized my warranty was almost up. So I'm assuming it is somthing else, but I had to take the truck back 3 times for them to get the rebuild on it right so I'm wondering if they missed something. Anyone got a list of the 4x4 error codes? I would like to have these for future reference. Any input is appreciated.
I was also wondering if the '4WD Auto' on my ride is the same as the permanent AWD option you can get? I was just curious about this for my own knowledge, not important.
I have the 2WD, 4WD Auto, and 4WD Low option. I just recently got the tranny and xfer case completely rebuilt with a 12/12 warranty on both through Ammco. Well, I'm dangerouly approaching 12,000 miles. When I put my truck in '4WD Auto' you can hear 2 simultanous poping noises like locking hubs are engauging? (but this isn't as loud as the double poping noise that you hear when you engauge the 4WD Low) Everything seems to be normal at this point until you go any distance the 4WD Auto and 4WD Low lights will flash simultaniously 6 times about every 2-3 minutes. I also hear a great deal of low tone noise comming from the front of the vehicle (especially when turning or stopping while in a sharp turn I hear clunking) which seems abnormal to me for 4WD Auto. It almost feels like its in 4WD Low.
In 2WD I normally get some poping from the front end when I'm going over large bumps or pot holes which I believe is the half shafts (or at least it has to be since I have replaced EVERYTHING else in the front suspenstion IE. ball joints, upper control arms, bushings, front sway bar bushings, all around shocks, end links.) The wierd part is the poping doesn't normally occure while turning (in 2WD), which I thought was a characteristic of half shafts.
I have looked for a listing of 4WD error codes on the internet some, where I came up empty. I also went to a Ford service dept who couldn't tell me what the 4x4 lights flashing 6 times meant. I would like to figure out if this is a problem with the transfer case so I can get it fixed under warranty. The wierd thing is this was doing this before I got the xfer case rebuilt but I just never used 4WD Auto long enough to bring up the codes, until recently when I realized my warranty was almost up. So I'm assuming it is somthing else, but I had to take the truck back 3 times for them to get the rebuild on it right so I'm wondering if they missed something. Anyone got a list of the 4x4 error codes? I would like to have these for future reference. Any input is appreciated.
I was also wondering if the '4WD Auto' on my ride is the same as the permanent AWD option you can get? I was just curious about this for my own knowledge, not important.