Allen35540
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- June 27, 2011
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- City, State
- San Diego, CA
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1995 Eddie Bauer
Hello everyone! I recently acquirred a 1995 Explorer Eddie Bauer in excellent condition! It's pretty loaded, and has the Control Trac 4WD option. I like this drivetrain very much and it seems to work nicely in slippery road conditions. It works nicely on pavement. The nice thing is that the vehicle is at stock factory height, thus reducing the rollover tendencies that the other 4WD models tend to exhibit. I don't intend to seriously off road with this, but an occassional foray off pavement might happen every once in awhile. I checked and it does have the required skid plates for off roading...very cool! The problems I've encountered involve the cassette deck for the stereo which seems to play only the left channel and not the right, and an occassional quirk where when I start the engine after hot soak, the engine starts but idle cannot be maintained and it dies if you take your foot off the gas. Knowing emissions controls it acts like a stuck Idle Air Management Valve. Tapping on it seems to free it up and then the engine runs normally. I know Fords have a nasty habit of making this black soot that gets into everything and it may be causing the pintle to stick.
I am a CB radio operator and have installed a pretty good station in the car. I can give some advice on where to mount the antenna and how to suppress fuel pump noise for those wanting to put a radio into the car. My Eddie Bauer doesn't seem to have this wailing fuel pump noise that many Explorer models do, and I've used special filters on the power in to the radio and high quality coaxial cable. I'm inclined to think the Eddie Bauer has a noise suppression unit on it though and I was told that the electric fuel pump was replaced recently and maybe they have finally solved that problem. My last car, an Escort really had this problem bad! The current set up is receiving with no noise and is talking all over the world!
I am curious about the transmission in this Explorer. I've had a lot of problems with Ford trannies in the past. Both of my previous vehicles required full transmission rebuilds and they were very expensive to fix! This transmission seems to run okay but feels a bit slushy and I am contemplating changing the fluid and filter. I noticed a filter outside of the transmission in the cooler line going to the radiator, is there also a filter in the transmission itself as well? Recommended change is 30,000 miles and I don't know how many miles the current fluid has on it, although it is still red and smells okay. Any advice here would help! I have also been told to make sure and use the command center for determining oil changes on the 4.0 V6 and to do them faithfully without fail. I intend to run Castrol GTX after the next oil change.
Look forward to hanging with you guys here and I hope I can contribute and learn some things as well!
5540-Mobile Al
I am a CB radio operator and have installed a pretty good station in the car. I can give some advice on where to mount the antenna and how to suppress fuel pump noise for those wanting to put a radio into the car. My Eddie Bauer doesn't seem to have this wailing fuel pump noise that many Explorer models do, and I've used special filters on the power in to the radio and high quality coaxial cable. I'm inclined to think the Eddie Bauer has a noise suppression unit on it though and I was told that the electric fuel pump was replaced recently and maybe they have finally solved that problem. My last car, an Escort really had this problem bad! The current set up is receiving with no noise and is talking all over the world!
I am curious about the transmission in this Explorer. I've had a lot of problems with Ford trannies in the past. Both of my previous vehicles required full transmission rebuilds and they were very expensive to fix! This transmission seems to run okay but feels a bit slushy and I am contemplating changing the fluid and filter. I noticed a filter outside of the transmission in the cooler line going to the radiator, is there also a filter in the transmission itself as well? Recommended change is 30,000 miles and I don't know how many miles the current fluid has on it, although it is still red and smells okay. Any advice here would help! I have also been told to make sure and use the command center for determining oil changes on the 4.0 V6 and to do them faithfully without fail. I intend to run Castrol GTX after the next oil change.
Look forward to hanging with you guys here and I hope I can contribute and learn some things as well!
5540-Mobile Al
