My timing chain on one bank has been loose, I presume a faulty tensioner. It slaps on startup and quickly catches up.
Last night while driving down a hill not under load, the engine just stopped. I hit the gas, nothing. The engine light came on, no other dash lights.
I hear nothing in the engine that would indicate a chain breaking, but do not know if I had heard something like that or not.
I tried restarting and it just cranks, but "feels" like only one side of the engine is cranking so I do not know if Ford designed a fail safe to prevent valve fouling if the timing chain did break.
Does this sound like a broken chain? Or maybe the chain jumped teeth and now it is just way out of timing? There is no sputtering, etc, no combustion at all.
Last night while driving down a hill not under load, the engine just stopped. I hit the gas, nothing. The engine light came on, no other dash lights.
I hear nothing in the engine that would indicate a chain breaking, but do not know if I had heard something like that or not.
I tried restarting and it just cranks, but "feels" like only one side of the engine is cranking so I do not know if Ford designed a fail safe to prevent valve fouling if the timing chain did break.
Does this sound like a broken chain? Or maybe the chain jumped teeth and now it is just way out of timing? There is no sputtering, etc, no combustion at all.
Nov 22, 2017 at 5:49 AM
