crank shaft sensor on 04 explorer

[71scout]

i got a 2004 ford explorer that i need to change the crank shaft sensor on. any body got anything that will help me any. i dont know much about new cars and dont have the money to pay someone to do it.
thanks.

 

[IZwack]

The crankshaft position sensor on most modern vehicles is typically located right behind/beside the main engine pulley. It is a solid state device with a magnetic field that is distorted by the "teeth" on a rotating "tone ring" (mounted behind the main pulley). So just look for this "tone ring" at the main pulley and somewhere around its perimeter to it will be the crankshaft position sensor.

 

[71scout]

thanks so much

 

[IZwack]

Oh and just to get this out there, sometimes, because of all the jargon, people get the "crankshaft position sensor" (CKP) mixed up with the "camshaft position sensor" (CPS).

 

[71scout]

thanks alot.
well i did change the crank sensor and whiles i was layin under it i noticed that the main pully was not straight. it had slid back on the rubber (or plastic) core and thats how the sensor got tore up. i'm not thinking that this is normal but please tell me if i'm wrong. and after i changed the sensor it still wouldn't start. so now i need to find something else to fix