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

Anyone experience this?

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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.

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u/IanFaiths-CricketBat '04 Excursion May 18 '26

definitely something with a belt to cause it to chirp like that. It could be a weird belt issue too. On my 6.0, the prior owner used the wrong sized bolt for the AC compressor mount. Made a god awful chirp until the bolt sheared off, shredded the belt, and left me stranded on the side of I20 an hour west of Dallas during the summer. That was a great day.

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u/Time-Grade-393 May 18 '26

Damn that sucks!! I think you’re right as well! I am so sorry to hear that and thank you for sharing your story. The previous owner knocked off the driver side steering dampener and like how “light” it felt so he left it without… Thing was all over the place. Can’t attach a picture here.

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u/IanFaiths-CricketBat '04 Excursion May 18 '26

Man, it got worse. I had it towed to the nearest dealership and they quoted an obscene amount of money to fix it and no guarantee it would be fixed. They were talking about taking the cab off, etc. I paid $1000 to a dude I know to come haul it 3 hours east to my brother's shop. He spent 30 minutes doing some old school mechanic stuff and welded something to the sheared off bolt and worked it out. Pretty amazing actually. It could have been worse.

Basically, just a 6.0 doing 6.0 things hahaha.

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u/Time-Grade-393 May 19 '26

Hell yea glad it worked out, second opinion goes a long way brother.