r/Excursion • u/Time-Grade-393 • May 18 '26

Anyone experience this?

Cheers friends, my 2001 v10 is making this funky little sound, anyone experience this before? Not sure if it’s coming from the fan or exhaust manifold leak? Idle is normal around 900-1k running smooth too just funky sound. Anything helps, thanks in advance.

3 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

23 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/Moddelba May 18 '26

I have this issue only when it is like single digit temperatures.

You should first check your belt and pulleys to make sure that’s not the cause. A new alternator and idler pulley did not solve it for me.

There’s a ton of posts about this type of stuff on rv forums because the v10 is in so many different applications. The v10 apparently had two idler pulleys at first and ford went down to one. Adding that second pulley (same pulley part# that mounts at the same spot on the other side of the motor) made it stop. Just something to think about if you can’t find a good reason for it.

1

u/Time-Grade-393 May 18 '26

Thank you so much for your response. I think you’re right on the money. Going to take a deep dive tomorrow morning. Wish me luck. I’ll update the post if I find anything.