Vehicle
Ford Explorer Sport Trac
The Explorer with a short pickup bed, and for everything forward of the rear seats it is an Explorer — same frame family, same engines, same electrical architecture — so that page and the Ranger's cover nearly all of it. The bed is a composite moulding rather than steel, which changes accident repair and rules out most bolt-on bed hardware. The first generation uses the 4.0 SOHC V6 whose timing chain guides and cassette at the back of the engine are the well-known failure, audible as a rattle at start-up and a job that requires the engine out or the body lifted; the second generation adds the 4.6 V8.
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Generations
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First generation 2000–2005
The 4.0 SOHC V6, whose rear-mounted timing chain cassette is the known failure.
- Body styles
- Pickup
- Platform
- Ford U2
- Engines
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- 4.0 V6 — COLOGNE · petrol · 157 kW (211 hp) · SOHC Cologne
- Transmissions
- 5-speed M5OD manual · 5-speed 5R55E automatic
- Drivetrain
- Rear-wheel drive · Four-wheel drive
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Second generation 2006–2010
Adds the 4.6 modular V8 alongside the 4.0.
- Body styles
- Pickup
- Platform
- Ford U2
- Engines
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- 4.0 V6 — COLOGNE · petrol · SOHC Cologne
- 4.6 V8 — TRITON · petrol · 218 kW (292 hp) · modular
- Transmissions
- 5-speed 5R55E automatic · 6-speed 6R automatic
- Drivetrain
- Rear-wheel drive · Four-wheel drive
Service information
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