MistahYebba
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- Joined
- June 29, 2015
- Messages
- 275
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- City, State
- Clearwater, Florida
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2005 Ford Explorer XLT
So I have 3 leaks, power steering, coolant, and oil, all of which seem to be hidden, but the lack of fluids start to show every month or two and I just top them off.
The oil is the most concerning to me. Once the oil starts getting low, I get ticks/clicking/weird sounds and questionable performance, but today I was experiencing some interesting behavior and I wanted to check in with you guys.
It's colder weather today and my truck seems to act up when it's cold (92 Explorer).
Driving down the highway to work this morning, I would hit points in acceleration where the RPMs would stay the same as I was trying to speed up. Let's say 1800 RPMs. It would just stay perfectly there on the tach, and if I'd push a little harder on the pedal to knock it out of place, I could feel it switch gears and start better again. This made me think I must have a sticking gear? Is that how that works?
And when I rev hard enough to get out of that gear into the next one, we're good?
Hoping this was just the cold/bad start/getting low on oil, but what could it be?
Furthermore, I want to solve this.. how can I even begin to address an oil leak? I see no oil spots ever. Takes about a month and a half to go from full to low.
The oil is the most concerning to me. Once the oil starts getting low, I get ticks/clicking/weird sounds and questionable performance, but today I was experiencing some interesting behavior and I wanted to check in with you guys.
It's colder weather today and my truck seems to act up when it's cold (92 Explorer).
Driving down the highway to work this morning, I would hit points in acceleration where the RPMs would stay the same as I was trying to speed up. Let's say 1800 RPMs. It would just stay perfectly there on the tach, and if I'd push a little harder on the pedal to knock it out of place, I could feel it switch gears and start better again. This made me think I must have a sticking gear? Is that how that works?
And when I rev hard enough to get out of that gear into the next one, we're good?
Hoping this was just the cold/bad start/getting low on oil, but what could it be?
Furthermore, I want to solve this.. how can I even begin to address an oil leak? I see no oil spots ever. Takes about a month and a half to go from full to low.