Good Day fellow Escapers,
Time to make my first post here. Unfortunately I have been met with a challenge.
I have a 2002 Ford Escape XLT 3.0L V6 DOHC Duratec. I have this nasty squealing sound coming from the engine.
Here is what I have done so far:
- Manually verified free pulleys in both Water pump side and all in passenger side. (Alt, Air, Tensioner, PS).
- I have purchased a new belt and also after it not fixing the issue have applied belt dressing against my better judgement.
- I looked into anything loose, hissing, just not looking right.
Here is what I found:
- I have an exhaust leak on my front manifold. (Right off the head). This goes away after running the truck about 30 seconds or so.
- Of course as we all know the Escapes manifolds are Cats.
- All pulleys are free of restriction, Altenator is slightly resisting compared to others but still free. (Hard to reach too)
- Tensioner has lots of strength to it yet.
- Nothing loose, just exhaust leakage from manifold to cat (front).
Now after several different theories and such I decided to pull both belts off and see if I got the same squeal. Long behold it still remained with both belts in my hands. Hmmmm.
Slightly confused at this point as it now means the sound I am hearing is engine related possibly.
There is no spinning parts left to check to my knowledge.
I also have noticed a lack of power so I changed the Fuel filter just as a precaution. Seeing as it lacks power under load or mashing the throttle. Thought it may have been starving for gas. No difference.
1 thing of note is I had a misfire for a day in late spring. But I cannot truely remember if the squeal was there prior to that or not.
So I took it to the dealer and they are always booked way in advance. The shop stewarts both looked at it and said cat right off the bat.
So into the Parts Dept I went.
The front convertor in in my town from the ford dealer is 1283.00 +tax. Sorry but that is just way too much.
And I have read of the warranties but I have 168000KM on the truck so it is past any hope of the free replacement thing.
Anyone have any other options or suggestions that I can try? or look at?
Truck is normal powered under 2K RPM, then starts to squeal after 2.5K and up, scare you at 4K just before a shift.
Any suggestions that you have would be great.
I will be checking back to view comments or suggestions off and on.
Thanks again.
Snap.
Time to make my first post here. Unfortunately I have been met with a challenge.
I have a 2002 Ford Escape XLT 3.0L V6 DOHC Duratec. I have this nasty squealing sound coming from the engine.
Here is what I have done so far:
- Manually verified free pulleys in both Water pump side and all in passenger side. (Alt, Air, Tensioner, PS).
- I have purchased a new belt and also after it not fixing the issue have applied belt dressing against my better judgement.
- I looked into anything loose, hissing, just not looking right.
Here is what I found:
- I have an exhaust leak on my front manifold. (Right off the head). This goes away after running the truck about 30 seconds or so.
- Of course as we all know the Escapes manifolds are Cats.
- All pulleys are free of restriction, Altenator is slightly resisting compared to others but still free. (Hard to reach too)
- Tensioner has lots of strength to it yet.
- Nothing loose, just exhaust leakage from manifold to cat (front).
Now after several different theories and such I decided to pull both belts off and see if I got the same squeal. Long behold it still remained with both belts in my hands. Hmmmm.
Slightly confused at this point as it now means the sound I am hearing is engine related possibly.
There is no spinning parts left to check to my knowledge.
I also have noticed a lack of power so I changed the Fuel filter just as a precaution. Seeing as it lacks power under load or mashing the throttle. Thought it may have been starving for gas. No difference.
1 thing of note is I had a misfire for a day in late spring. But I cannot truely remember if the squeal was there prior to that or not.
So I took it to the dealer and they are always booked way in advance. The shop stewarts both looked at it and said cat right off the bat.
So into the Parts Dept I went.
The front convertor in in my town from the ford dealer is 1283.00 +tax. Sorry but that is just way too much.
And I have read of the warranties but I have 168000KM on the truck so it is past any hope of the free replacement thing.
Anyone have any other options or suggestions that I can try? or look at?
Truck is normal powered under 2K RPM, then starts to squeal after 2.5K and up, scare you at 4K just before a shift.
Any suggestions that you have would be great.
I will be checking back to view comments or suggestions off and on.
Thanks again.
Snap.