Dan725
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- April 13, 2006
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- City, State
- La Jolla, CA
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '97 XLT 4.0 V6
Hi, I'm new here, and I was refered here by a member of another forum. He refered me to a really helpful member here named Glacier991.
Before I begin, from the few pm exchanges I had with Glacier991, he's geniunely a nice person, and a very knowledgeble person. In posting this, I am in no way saying that he is not capable of helping me, lol.
I'm posting this here now because I want multiple inputs on this situation, and I do not want to put all the burden on Glacier991, who has already taken his time to help me w/ his pm's.
K my story:
At first I thought it was the transmission making the noise.
It makes a loud, geary noise everytime I let my foot off the accelerator, and it only happens when I go above 40 mph or so. It seems, after the tranmissions goes past 2nd or 3rd gear, and I let my foot off the petal, the loud, geary noise comes on.
I just have to press on the gas to make the noise go away.
The sound is originating from the transfer case. (the mechanic helping me told me this)
The car actually runs perfectly fine w/ no noises when the 4WD is set to "LOW."
Once it's set to "HIGH," the noises come back, AND, reverse no longer works.
Also, after reving the engine over 3k for long periods of time, the overdrive light starts blinking, and the next part I'm not sure if I can explain properly.
The OD light keep blinking, and it seems that OD is off (half way). Usually when I turn off OD, the engine will rev a lot higher. This is expected. And When I turn off OD, it revs lower.
But now that it's blinking, it revs higher, when the OD is percieved to be off, the RPM higher than normal, but not as high when OD is actually off.
or in other words...
While the light is blinking, and I turn off OD (at this point, I can't tell if it's on or off by just looking @ the light... I can only tell if OD is off when the engine is reving higher), the engine revs higher. When I turn if on, it revs lower, but not as low as when the OD light is not blinking.
This goes away after I leave the car overnight.
The mechanic disconnected the transfer case's ability to go into "LOW" and "AUTO" mode, and did something so the geary noises does not come back while under "HIGH" mode.
So, now, is it OK to drive in this type of condition? I doubt it, but oh well. I really need the car for obvious reasons (work..heh).
I essentially lost the transfer case's ability to be in "auto" mode, and it can never go into "low" mode. With this, the car runs just like it did before, except, that on some occasions, when I accelerate, it feels like the car's running on 3rd gear instead of 1st gear (so it accelerates slower than usual).
I fear that when I go to the dealer, they're goign to strip down everything, replace everything, and charge me an incredible amount of money.
sigh
oh and one other thing, lol. does anyone have the 97-era ford explorer xlt car manual in a PDF file? During the years of having this car, I seem to have misplaced it. :navajo:
Before I begin, from the few pm exchanges I had with Glacier991, he's geniunely a nice person, and a very knowledgeble person. In posting this, I am in no way saying that he is not capable of helping me, lol.
I'm posting this here now because I want multiple inputs on this situation, and I do not want to put all the burden on Glacier991, who has already taken his time to help me w/ his pm's.
K my story:
At first I thought it was the transmission making the noise.
It makes a loud, geary noise everytime I let my foot off the accelerator, and it only happens when I go above 40 mph or so. It seems, after the tranmissions goes past 2nd or 3rd gear, and I let my foot off the petal, the loud, geary noise comes on.
I just have to press on the gas to make the noise go away.
The sound is originating from the transfer case. (the mechanic helping me told me this)
The car actually runs perfectly fine w/ no noises when the 4WD is set to "LOW."
Once it's set to "HIGH," the noises come back, AND, reverse no longer works.
Also, after reving the engine over 3k for long periods of time, the overdrive light starts blinking, and the next part I'm not sure if I can explain properly.
The OD light keep blinking, and it seems that OD is off (half way). Usually when I turn off OD, the engine will rev a lot higher. This is expected. And When I turn off OD, it revs lower.
But now that it's blinking, it revs higher, when the OD is percieved to be off, the RPM higher than normal, but not as high when OD is actually off.
or in other words...
While the light is blinking, and I turn off OD (at this point, I can't tell if it's on or off by just looking @ the light... I can only tell if OD is off when the engine is reving higher), the engine revs higher. When I turn if on, it revs lower, but not as low as when the OD light is not blinking.
This goes away after I leave the car overnight.
The mechanic disconnected the transfer case's ability to go into "LOW" and "AUTO" mode, and did something so the geary noises does not come back while under "HIGH" mode.
So, now, is it OK to drive in this type of condition? I doubt it, but oh well. I really need the car for obvious reasons (work..heh).
I essentially lost the transfer case's ability to be in "auto" mode, and it can never go into "low" mode. With this, the car runs just like it did before, except, that on some occasions, when I accelerate, it feels like the car's running on 3rd gear instead of 1st gear (so it accelerates slower than usual).
I fear that when I go to the dealer, they're goign to strip down everything, replace everything, and charge me an incredible amount of money.
sigh
oh and one other thing, lol. does anyone have the 97-era ford explorer xlt car manual in a PDF file? During the years of having this car, I seem to have misplaced it
. :navajo:
.
