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[Guru]

2000 Ford Explorer XLT V6 178K miles
ABS light doesn't go out
may need converter but not certain

Brakes are good
has a little rust on the rear fender but nothing really bad and the paint has oxidation

Muffler recently replaced. Still waiting for answers regarding if the engine or tranny have ever been overhauled.

This is mostly highway miles to Kentucky and back.

They are asking 1500

[JASONSAUTO]

Originally Posted by Guru

It's loud.

Catalytic converter?

I think everyone assumed torque converter
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[JASONSAUTO]

Originally Posted by Big Smoke

Well a lot of the time a CEL is just an o2 sensor or something silly like that. My car has had the CEL on since I bought it, but there isn't anything seriously wrong with it. I have a faulty o2 sensor, doesn't effect the way the car runs, drives, etc. The CEL light being on is annoying, but I am not dumping $50 bucks on a part I don't really need just so the light will go off

It's actually the heater circuit on that o2 sensor.

If the actual sensor was bad you would get terrible gas mileage
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[JASONSAUTO]

Originally Posted by cookster50

Have JASONAUTO hook you up.

he would have jumped all over the older Taurus I sold a couple months ago.
1500 and was LOW mileage, owned by a hundred year old guy since new and he went to the nursing home. family wanted it yo go to the scrapper and I offered then what the yard did.

It drives by the shop every day to drop their kids off at head start
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[JASONSAUTO]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

And now you know what you should do, Guru.

When has this idiot ever been right about anything - ever? It's not called the CoMo effect for nothing.

He's not right here either. It's a good vehicle that's perhaps a little too heavy for the light truck frame it was built on so things like the ball joints and the tie-rod ends have to be replaced a little more often than they would on something like a Tahoe, which was built on a full-sized truck frame.

You're not going to beat the value on a 4WD either, if that's something you really want. It will get fairly lousy gas mileage, though. Ours was getting in the high teens when all was said and done.

I think it's the torsion bar suspension that eats those ball joints.

Blazers were the same way
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[Guru]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

Catalytic converter?

I think everyone assumed torque converter
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Yeah, I think it was the catalytic converter.

[JASONSAUTO]

Originally Posted by Guru

Yeah, I think it was the catalytic converter.

It may actually be the muffler. If it's a dual inlet they are pretty noisy and rust out.

I put one on two Weeks ago for 125. Probably be twice that there though lol
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Edit: whoops just saw they had a new muffler, might just be a bad weld, and those things always find loud to me

[Guru]

Its the SOHC V6 engine. Guess I will go ahead and have the mechanical inspection done.