khkiley
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- '96 Eddier Bauer
Anybody's input on this would be greatly apreciated.
I have a '96 EB Explorer, V6 4spd Auto. At around 200K miles the transmission took a dump, I took it to Level 10 and they said they had to completely rebuild it, I am not surprised because when it went, it went hard, a lot of crunching and banging sounds and the transmission locked up.
Now around 4K miles later I'm driving it down the parkway at around 85 and I hear a sound that sounds like I just got a blowout, a loud fizzzzzzshshshsh type sound.
I pull over, and the first thing I notice is that the truck won't hold in park, the truck keeps on rolling and making a clicking/clacking sound, (also found out my parking brake isn't working). OK, found a spot where the truck won't roll and all 4 tires look OK, start the truck back up and the noise is gone, rev the engine, noise is still gone, merge back onto the parkway, noise is still gone, everything seems fine (except for the problem with park) until I take my foot off the gas and engine brake, the RPMS drop to idle and the loud shrieking sound that I thought was a tire blow out starts again. I give it more gas, the RPMS come back up and the shrieking goes away. I limp it back home and check the fluid, and it is (not surprisingly) burnt and full of small particles.
Can anyone hazard a guess as to what happened so I can have a better understanding of things before I take it back to Level 10 ?
I'm guessing the clutches slipping while engine braking and the problem with park have to be related, I doubt that both of them failing at the same time are a coincidence.
Again, any help is greatly apreciated, thanks in advance.
Kurt
I have a '96 EB Explorer, V6 4spd Auto. At around 200K miles the transmission took a dump, I took it to Level 10 and they said they had to completely rebuild it, I am not surprised because when it went, it went hard, a lot of crunching and banging sounds and the transmission locked up.
Now around 4K miles later I'm driving it down the parkway at around 85 and I hear a sound that sounds like I just got a blowout, a loud fizzzzzzshshshsh type sound.
I pull over, and the first thing I notice is that the truck won't hold in park, the truck keeps on rolling and making a clicking/clacking sound, (also found out my parking brake isn't working). OK, found a spot where the truck won't roll and all 4 tires look OK, start the truck back up and the noise is gone, rev the engine, noise is still gone, merge back onto the parkway, noise is still gone, everything seems fine (except for the problem with park) until I take my foot off the gas and engine brake, the RPMS drop to idle and the loud shrieking sound that I thought was a tire blow out starts again. I give it more gas, the RPMS come back up and the shrieking goes away. I limp it back home and check the fluid, and it is (not surprisingly) burnt and full of small particles.
Can anyone hazard a guess as to what happened so I can have a better understanding of things before I take it back to Level 10 ?
I'm guessing the clutches slipping while engine braking and the problem with park have to be related, I doubt that both of them failing at the same time are a coincidence.
Again, any help is greatly apreciated, thanks in advance.
Kurt
