Frey7190
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- '93 Eddie Bauer
My 93 explorer has some weird problem going on with it. I haven't driven it much lately, I try to get 10-20 miles on it every weekend, because now I have another DD. Lately though, its been acting up and now has started smoking from what looks to be from the rear part of the engine.
My symptoms are:
- Very small jerks/bucks when in gear and at a stop
- WOT doesn't downshift
- Cars MPG is way down!
- Loss of power
- No CEL to check (sadly)
- Engine exhaust smells like gas, and clear fluid (water like) drips out of the tailpipe when cold.
- You can hear/see the engine not working 100%, because the engine idle sound is off, and the engine itself shakes slightly
- NOW, as of last weekend, the engine has a light amount of smoke coming from the rear of the engine.
In 7/08, around 6k ago I had very bad bucking/jerking at stops, my MPG was down, power was completely gone, basically had the same problems as now, but my engine didn't smoke and no cel came on. Mechanic charged me $1500 to replace the fuel injectors claiming the injectors were bad, replaced the spark plugs because of "excessive fuel delivery" after the injectors were replaced. The engine was rebuilt from bare bones back in 2000 (60k) and now this!??
The car has 91k on it now, drove fine back in 2009, it did a trip to norcal from socal without a problem, drove like a champ. What I did notice though on my trip was the the oil pressure was kinda high.. Not dangerously high, but the gauge was between the MA of NORMAL, not RM where it sits normally.
What could this be? I cant, and will not rebuild the engine on this car. Im kinda hoping its the sparks, or spark plug wires. From reading some of the V8 posts from people with 97 explorers, they say the culprit to there problem was the lower intake manifold gasket.. could that be it?
TIA,
James
My symptoms are:
- Very small jerks/bucks when in gear and at a stop
- WOT doesn't downshift
- Cars MPG is way down!
- Loss of power
- No CEL to check (sadly)
- Engine exhaust smells like gas, and clear fluid (water like) drips out of the tailpipe when cold.
- You can hear/see the engine not working 100%, because the engine idle sound is off, and the engine itself shakes slightly
- NOW, as of last weekend, the engine has a light amount of smoke coming from the rear of the engine.
In 7/08, around 6k ago I had very bad bucking/jerking at stops, my MPG was down, power was completely gone, basically had the same problems as now, but my engine didn't smoke and no cel came on. Mechanic charged me $1500 to replace the fuel injectors claiming the injectors were bad, replaced the spark plugs because of "excessive fuel delivery" after the injectors were replaced. The engine was rebuilt from bare bones back in 2000 (60k) and now this!??
The car has 91k on it now, drove fine back in 2009, it did a trip to norcal from socal without a problem, drove like a champ. What I did notice though on my trip was the the oil pressure was kinda high.. Not dangerously high, but the gauge was between the MA of NORMAL, not RM where it sits normally.
What could this be? I cant, and will not rebuild the engine on this car. Im kinda hoping its the sparks, or spark plug wires. From reading some of the V8 posts from people with 97 explorers, they say the culprit to there problem was the lower intake manifold gasket.. could that be it?
TIA,
James
