Darian Key
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- Joined
- November 19, 2013
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- City, State
- Reford, MI
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1997 Ford explorer
hey guy I just bought a 97 explorer 4 door 2wd 4.0 and it was my uncles before he passed away. he was doing what I can see as a tune up possibly but passed away the night that he started it? anyway it has 2 new spark plug wires and the rest or old and I had to buy a new plug because he had one out and the wire still connected to the coil but I couldn't find the old spark plug so I got a new one just to get it running. I put 4 gallons of fresh gas and a lucas fuel additive and when I started it up it was missing pretty bad. so I drove it home and still has the same miss too it so I got a can of seafoam and seafoamed the motor and put half the can in the gas tank and it runs a little better but still feels like it is only running on 4 cylinders. my buddy and I hooked a scanner up too it and no misfire codes came up but a code for the bank 1 sensor 2 o2 sensor needs to be replaced and it said bank 1 and bank 2 system running too lean. I individually unplugged the wires off the coil while it was running and number 4 and 6 on the coil even being unplugged made no difference to how the motor was running so im guessing the plugs and wires could be the fault or a bad coil? another idea was clogged injectors because it DOES NOT have even CLOSE to full power. my moms bf is always negative about things and says its the timing chain but maybe you guys can help? the truck has 155,000 miles and was well maintained and old person driven. even being in Michigan it has not one spot of rust on it. its still yet unknown why he had only 1 spark plug out and 2 new spark plug wires on the number 3 and 4 cylinder my aunt said the truck ran good before he messed with it. I want to get this truck running good mechanically then ill clean her up. the interior is a good 9/10 and it needs two passenger doors due to a hit and run accident and also some stupid things here and there but not a bad deal for 600. I am mechanically inclined and capable of doing a timing chain on those 4.0's but if I don't have to that would be great.