explorer-aus
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- City, State
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1997 - Explorer XLT SOHC
Alright, so update.
It was definitely the hydraulic tensioner that had failed, I bought another and installed it but the slapping was twice as loud! Oh noes. I gave up and just drove the ******* home thinking it was over, but a few drives later randomly went quiet again. Seems that the tensioner may have had an air lock? or just took a while to build pressure properly when it was new. Either way, the car is running perfectly fine now with silence. It does have a quick rattle on cold start due to not installing the galley plug upgrade (galley plug is so rusted I cannot remove it)
It was definitely the hydraulic tensioner that had failed, I bought another and installed it but the slapping was twice as loud! Oh noes. I gave up and just drove the ******* home thinking it was over, but a few drives later randomly went quiet again. Seems that the tensioner may have had an air lock? or just took a while to build pressure properly when it was new. Either way, the car is running perfectly fine now with silence. It does have a quick rattle on cold start due to not installing the galley plug upgrade (galley plug is so rusted I cannot remove it)