phils89sc
Registered User
I have searched through the archives and know that I am not the only one with this problem.
I was driving with my girlfriend to go to the store and all of a sudden the car just quit. I coasted to a stop in a side street. I tried starting it a few times, but she would just sputter and die. I popped the hood and saw nothing remarkable, and thought it may be a clogged fuel filter. Replaced it, still no help. I was under the hood and had my girlfriend crank the engine, that is when I saw the belt lose all tension, and the crank pulley/dampner fall forward.
I just got it home (I was about 10 miles away) and have not yet evaluated the total damage yet, but will soon. I have read plenty of posts on this topic on this forum. My engine has 230K miles on her, and this SH!% happens. You would think Ford would help out some here since this is definetly NOT an isolated incident and has happened to MANY SC's!!! What the fu#% is wrong with Ford?
So now I must spend the rest of this weekend and probably a few days next week fixing this design FLAW and lose a couple of days from work since this is my primary transport.
I already know that this may not help, but after all of this is done, I am going to box up my old and broken harmonic balancer and ship that piece of trash to Ford and tell them what I think of their corner cutting..... Anyone wish to join me?
Thanks
Phil Stocker
I was driving with my girlfriend to go to the store and all of a sudden the car just quit. I coasted to a stop in a side street. I tried starting it a few times, but she would just sputter and die. I popped the hood and saw nothing remarkable, and thought it may be a clogged fuel filter. Replaced it, still no help. I was under the hood and had my girlfriend crank the engine, that is when I saw the belt lose all tension, and the crank pulley/dampner fall forward.
I just got it home (I was about 10 miles away) and have not yet evaluated the total damage yet, but will soon. I have read plenty of posts on this topic on this forum. My engine has 230K miles on her, and this SH!% happens. You would think Ford would help out some here since this is definetly NOT an isolated incident and has happened to MANY SC's!!! What the fu#% is wrong with Ford?
So now I must spend the rest of this weekend and probably a few days next week fixing this design FLAW and lose a couple of days from work since this is my primary transport.
I already know that this may not help, but after all of this is done, I am going to box up my old and broken harmonic balancer and ship that piece of trash to Ford and tell them what I think of their corner cutting..... Anyone wish to join me?
Thanks
Phil Stocker