Damn, well I was driving on the freeway last night only doing 65, when my girlfriend and I heard a violent rumble and felt the truck start shaking. It sounded like a the tire went flat insantly and we were driving on rim, but all tires were fine. We pulled over on the shoulder and I visually checked everything on the outside/engine. I tried cranking the engine real quick only to hear make some crazy noise I can't even describe. So anyway, I'm stuck in San Luis Obispo about 3 hours away from home (SF Bay Area). I had the tow-truck drop the L off at a local blue-oval dealership, Perry Ford. The problem is the service dept. doesn't open until tomorrow Well, looks like school/work will have to wait a few days... The reason this is so upsetting is because my truck as almost all of ours are, is relatively new with only 1 year under its belt with 18k miles on it. Anyway, I know my description of the problem was realy vague, but if any of you have asny ideas, feel free to respond.

BTW, truck is bone-stock.

 

that sucks! just be happy that you dont have any mods and that no matter what it is, it will be fixed under warranty.

 

At least you're stuck in SLO. It could be worse - you could be stuck in the Los Angeles area.

Have dinner at Cafe Roma and enjoy the evening.

 

Any fluid on the ground or whole in the block? Could be a number of things wrong.

At least you'll have 0 problems with the warrenty.

And it could be worse!

 

Bone Stock??

Are you the original owner???

Sorry to hear about your engine letting go...

 

Ah. Well, bone stock... atleast warrenty will cover it all and but the baby back to where she needs to be... Good luck.

-Mike

 

Thanks guys, I'll keep you sll informed on what the problem is. Hopefully I get a loaner, I dunno though, because the dealership I took it to isn't an SVT dealership.

 

THE ENGINE WENT OUT ON MY 02 AT 1,300 KM'S IT WAS IN THE CAM SAME DISCRIPTION AS WHAT YOU ARE SAYING

 

Sounds right, I noticed a significant ticking right before it happened. Sounded like a flat lobe on the cam, happened on my mustang.

 

When they pulled mine apart the camfollowers were ok, the insides were screwed.

 

Got the diagnostic...
Blown plug, lol. Straight out ofthe head. DOH.

 

They still haven't fixed my truck. This is getting really annoying.

 

It took them about 2 weeks to fix my truck after the spark plug blew out. The extra time included the techs leaving off an oil galley plug and them having to R&R the tranny to plug it up. Downside is oil went everywhere and engine damage may have occured? Upside was I had a loaner '02 explorer which I put 2K miles on.