shanescott43
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- 2002 Ford Explorer
this problem just happened to my 2004 explorer!
They talk about what and where this happened,but dont really talk about what they actually did to remidy the problem. please read paragraph below
I get a phone call at work from my wife telling me that as she pulled out of the driveway to go to work our 2003 Ford Explorer "lurched", made a loud "clunk", then a tire chirp or two. When i got home I saw a 4-5" long bolt with a huge washer laying at the end of the driveway (this can't be good I thought). When she got home she said it was making a clunking noise from the rear end. I scooted underneath to investigate and this is what I saw:
The grey object is the rear end gear housing (you can see the driveshaft coming into it at the front). That hole to the left of the orange letter "A" is where the bolt is supposed to be. It is SUPPOSED to be held flush to the hole above it in the rusty black frame member. As you can see, the entire rear housing has dropped about 2-3 inches!
There is a square-shaped insert with a threaded top that the bolt is supposed to engage in I have removed from that top frame member. The top portion with the threads had fractured into three pieces (that allowed the bolt to drop out and the whole assembly to drop and rest on the rear suspension arm crossmember).
They talk about what and where this happened,but dont really talk about what they actually did to remidy the problem. please read paragraph below
I get a phone call at work from my wife telling me that as she pulled out of the driveway to go to work our 2003 Ford Explorer "lurched", made a loud "clunk", then a tire chirp or two. When i got home I saw a 4-5" long bolt with a huge washer laying at the end of the driveway (this can't be good I thought). When she got home she said it was making a clunking noise from the rear end. I scooted underneath to investigate and this is what I saw:
The grey object is the rear end gear housing (you can see the driveshaft coming into it at the front). That hole to the left of the orange letter "A" is where the bolt is supposed to be. It is SUPPOSED to be held flush to the hole above it in the rusty black frame member. As you can see, the entire rear housing has dropped about 2-3 inches!
There is a square-shaped insert with a threaded top that the bolt is supposed to engage in I have removed from that top frame member. The top portion with the threads had fractured into three pieces (that allowed the bolt to drop out and the whole assembly to drop and rest on the rear suspension arm crossmember).
