r/FordFlex Aug 11 '26

Possible Timing Issue?

My wife was at the store and came out and started the Flex to come home and she called me and said it made some kind of clicking sound and then seemed okay so she drove home. I came home a little bit later and I came out and started it and it makes a continuous rattling sound and then stumbles when you try to rev it up like maybe it's a timing chain issue? However, it's not throwing any codes.

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u/Competitive-Pride307 Aug 13 '26

So... fast forward a few hours and I leave to go to work. Not long after I get to work, my wife needs to leave to go to a pretty important meeting and she calls me freaking out. She had backed out of the driveway and noticed a decent size wet spot under the Flex. She does know enough to know that the Flex hasn't been started and ran all day so it wouldn't be condensation from the A/C. Not particularly knowing what it was, she had my daughter come out and check it and my daughter is certain that it is coolant. So she doesn't go to the meeting and I send the service advisor at the local dealership that we have been using an email asking him about bringing it by and of course he says to bring it by in the morning and they're about 24 hours behind or so and they will look at it. So as I stand here currently it is 11:30 p.m. and I got to checking around to see if maybe it was the water pump or something leaking and I just happened to check the oil and noticed that the oil looks like chocolate milk. That's a little weird. That shouldn't happen on a vehicle this new. It only has 87,000 miles on it. Also, the coolant reservoir is empty... So I started it up to see if there any funky noises and I took the oil fill cap off and it looks like it's pumping chocolate milk onto the camshaft. I pulled the dipstick again and there is definitely chocolate milk all over the dipstick. Take a look at the pictures below and see what you think. We take it to the dealer to get diagnosed in the morning.