# Answer on radio show today

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/answer-on-radio-show-today/20074>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [September 27, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/answer-on-radio-show-today/20074 "2008-09-27T19:47:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![londons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@londons](https://community.cartalk.com/u/londons)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/answer-on-radio-show-today/20074/1 "2008-09-27T19:47:04Z")

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As I listened to the caller discribe the sound coming from his Ford Explorer chills went down my spine. the exact same thing happened to our 1995 Explorer 3 years ago, and our solution turned out to be more expensive then it needed to be. The symptoms were a loud winning noise and teh car went into a “freewheel”, that is the transmission was not engaged.  
  
 After taking the car to 3 experts, including 2 dealers and a transmission shop, we took their advice to get a transmission rebuild. The car was fine for about 3 miles, until I reached the speed of 50 mph.  
  
 I took the car back the next day and they did a rebuild of the transfer box and found the problem. It turns out that the fluid circulation in the transfer box gets sucked up through a plastic fitting on the bottom. This was broken!  
  
 After that repair the Explorer ran great, and we traded it in for less then that total repair cost us!

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**Author:** ![oldschool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19adc/32.png) [@oldschool](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldschool)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/answer-on-radio-show-today/20074/2 "2008-09-27T21:10:34Z")

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Did you get your money back on the misdiagnosed transmission failure?

You do say the problem really was in the transfer case.