Big Shoe wrote:
> "cadshop" wrote:
>
>> Reading this newsgroup as well as an Explorer forum makes it seem that
the
>> SOHC V6 has real problems with cam chain tensioners and noise that are
>> expensive to repair. I am thinking of a newer Explorer or a Toyota
4Runner
>> (2004-2007). But the cam chain issue has me scared. Am I being overly
>> concerned? Does the 4.6 V8 SOHC also have the same issues? Thanks for
any
>> advice.
>>
> I have an '05 with the 4.6 V8 engine and have had absolutely no
> problems with it. It now has about 50,000 miles on it. There is no
> kind of unusual sound like that made by the V6. I had a '99 with the
> V6 SOHC and it was recalled for the chain tensioner, but I never had
> any other problem with it. However, it was noisy.
I have an early '02 with the 4.6L V-8. At 160,000 miles, it just had its
first problem - one of the coil-on-plug assemblies gave out. Other than
that, no problems - and some of those miles have been hard miles,
pulling a 3500-pound camper across the country, into the US and Canadian
Rockies, the high Sierras, etc.
Bill
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